I have found it interesting that even three years later, October 9 looms. I’ve been all-consumed with what the date has been for the last many days, even into the last few weeks. “Are
Vulnerability is not one-size-fits-all. And though it may be universal in that everyone has their stories of it, it is quite relative to the individual. Even if experiences are the “same” the experience of
Consider the word, ‘surrender.’ Now consider the word, ‘freedom.’ I read a quote scrolling through instagram several months ago that said, ‘you’re only as free as your surrender,’ and it stopped my scroll. In
You know when you get a new car (or a new-to-you) car and the next time you’re on the road you see your same new car in the same new color w a a
We have a choice to make: to passively occupy life or to actively participate in it. And I’d challenge you to consider active participation even when it’s hard. When it’s exhausting. When it sometimes
I’m sitting here in the quiet. A place that I have grown to yearn for and love but a place that didn’t actually really exist for me until cancer. Sure, I had times of
I launched this personal site today–The Purposed Sailor–3 years to the day that I started daily writing out my cancer story. My heart in this endeavor is to continue to process the wholeness of