Hey there Connectors —
I am not fully grasping or even feeling the full impact of this week’s tragic shooting. I am truly numb. I have tears but I continue to hold them back. I just can’t let them go this time. They are my tears, my grief and my sadness and I can’t seem to surrender and accept what is. I am distracting myself to keep the truth at bay, I know it’s all so close but my heart is wincing at what my head knows to be true. I take more and more deep breaths as the tears well, I just can’t start crying because it feels like I won’t ever stop. I am afraid to feel – there I said it! The therapist is afraid to feel…
As an LGBT ally, for the love of my gay family and friends (shout out to my angel J.O.), I get the severity. I get what this means, represents and most of all, I get how this is a demonstration of the fear you live in. The reality. I get the decades long fight of the community to be out and open. This shakes the core. Maybe this reminds the core that safety is not something you ever get to feel. It is that for which my heart breaks.
So, no video, no talking head, no strategy… this is a time I want each of you to experience connection in the raw. I want your relationships to be easier because you have new perspective on what matters most to you today, in this moment. The best strategy for more connection and to make your relationship easier has been in your heart all this time. Find it, use it and I will see you all next week.
xoxo
You are loved by at least one. Me.
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