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When I look at you, I see the things I hope to find in the mirror.

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#parentingWin

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Dramatic sunrise this morning

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Children who feel they cannot engage their parents emotionally often try to strengthen their connection by playing whatever roles they believe their parents want them to. Although this may win them some fleeting approval, it doesn’t yield genuine emotional closeness. Emotionally disconnected parents don’t suddenly develop a capacity for empathy just because a child does something to please them. 

People who lacked emotional engagement in childhood, men and women alike, often can’t believe that someone would want to have a relationship with them just because of who they are. They believe that if they want closeness, they must play a role that always puts the other person first.

— Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (2015)

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Hand Holding...

There’s something about holding hands that makes it so beautiful. Like a silent communication with the one you like, love or really care about. When scared they hold on tighter to your hand. When they need to feel that you’re with them they hold your hand. Other times times you just have that urge to hold their hand and when you squeeze softly they squeeze back it makes you all warm inside. Then that moment where you just run your thumb across the back of their hand feeling the softness of their skin. And then when you have to let go they hold on tighter As if telling you to never leave their side. Holding hands so beautiful and sacred…

- Maybe I’m just over analyzing

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The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It’s Intimacy.

Richard Bach

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“If you love beauty, it’s because beauty lives within you. If you love art, it’s because you are creative. If it wakes up your heart, a receptor for it already exists within you. Your soul is drawn to the things that will help you unfold your most glorious expression. Give in.”

— Cynthia Occelli 

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I’ve experienced lots of changes in 2018… some things have become part of the past, and new and better things are here now and for the future, but some things don’t change.

Merry Christmas to my friends and family. I love all of you.

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“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.”

— S.C. Lourie

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“Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.”

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Last Christmas video: the reading from Genesis by the Apollo 8 crew as they orbited the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968.