A Year of Home: Interdependence & Dove's Eyes
It's been a year! A year of mental, physical and emotional gymnastics. A year of learning to be flexible. A year of acknowledging trauma, grief and disappointment. It's been a year of welcoming loneliness and aloneness as friends in an apartment all my own. It's been a year of doubt where I've wondered has it all been worth it? A year of missing hugs and singing with people. A year of goodbyes and so longs. A year of initiating conversations where my voice and tear ducts quiver. A year of learning how to be at home with myself---of being at home in God. A year of learning to laugh at myself and to stop being so serious. A year of "flipping tables" inwardly as I learned Zoom screens and to unmute my microphone as time and time again being with people was deemed unsafe or restricted. It's been exhausting. It's been beautiful discovering all the things around my city and walking/praying as I walk or wheel on these sidewalks. It's been a year