I saw this over the weekend while window shopping, and it struck me as something very appropriate for my life. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the plot, why things happened, why my childhood was what it was, why I was the way I was, etc. In all that time,…
Why yes, yes, it is. I don’t know if it’s just me or a coincidence, but it seems like a rash of tweets, Facebook comments, etc., challenging me on the idea that survivors could ever really heal. These comments are coming from survivors, too, which saddens me. Most of them seem to follow along the…
Recently, I had occasion to speak to two friends, on the same day. The conversations couldn’t have been any more different. One friend was celebrating some good news, while the other was struggling under the weight of health issues and needing someone to simply listen and sympathize with them. As someone who cares about both…
Today, as we were walking around Savannah, my wife and I came across a lovely Presbyterian Church and noticed that they had a sign out about a Compline service that evening starting at 9:00PM. It sounded pretty interesting, and as we are always on the lookout for new and interesting things when we are traveling,…
From time to time on this site, and on other sites frequented by survivors, I get asked the question about when it “ends”. What I find is that many survivors are looking for that time when they are simply never affected by anything related to their past. Most of the time I respond by pointing…
In looking at past Thanksgiving holiday posts in an effort to say something new, I came across this one in 2008, and it is still exactly the message I would like to send survivors as we kick off the holiday season in the US. So, I’m re-posting it tonight instead of writing something new, and…
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