Maria, I loved reading this post because it kept taking me in directions I didn’t expect. I didn’t expect the trip back to your teen years and the early draw to single/solitary figures. And I didn’t expect you to move so very beautifully into a meditation the power of an individual, but as I stayed with you the transition was so seamless and felt, actually, so necessary and right. And then there’s the meditation on how seemingly insurmountable practices can become habit—how true that is, of so many things.
I hope that at this very moment you feel your own power as an individual who so clearly endeavors to tread through life with compassion. I hope, too, that no matter how much empty space you feel around you at this time, you know that you are held and embraced by other stick figures out here.
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