Tom Penrod

Aug 6, 2021

…u cannot know sorrow and misery, you will not grow light enough to attract source to call you home. Life’s misery helps you throw off the dark cloak of suffering and reveal your true self. Like the layers of an onion, pain peels down to the core. But you don’t need it now.”

The Invitation
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Bridget Webber

Thank you Bridget! I am in love with your descriptions. You are a great example of "show don't tell.

Thanks for the story.

PS I am seated at the bar watching you and the man discuss the desert. I am silent and stunned at your ability to connect with both the present and the past.

Peace

Jul 21, 2021

I miss my mother. But time does heal as they say. The pain of loss is now a sore wound. I try to hold on to reason instead of blame. My mother lived long enough to see her children celeb…

I Need to Stop Blaming Myself for My Mother’s Death
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Shirley Jones Luke

I love your vulnerablity.

It has been 10 years since my father died from bladder cancer. I still feel the pain in my heart when I think about him.

So I just don't.

And I love your vulnerablity for putting your pain out here.

Yes, she wanted you to be alright and you will be!

Peace

Tom Penrod

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