Authentic Social Networking . . .
Once we enter adulthood there are a number of competing factors that make it increasingly challenging to cultivate meaningful relationships. Between juggling career expectations, dealing with unexpected relocations, managing relationships with significant others, and raising kids, it can be exhausting to even think about putting yourself out there to find friendship.
Archives for October 2017
The Mail Truck
It is the calm in the aftermath of chaos that brings the tears. That and a child’s toy car, a Hot Wheels car. It’s color completely gone. It could have been red or blue, maybe even purple with orange fire trails along its sides, but now it is charred and blackened like everything else in the neighborhood. The smell of smoke lingers in the air. Perhaps, even more so, the smell is still thick in her nostrils. Three days have passed since the flames were snuffed from the mountainside, smothered by the pink, fire-retardant chemicals that firefighters dumped from above in their helicopters. Sky Jell-O is what they called the special chemical. She calls it a miracle.
Fixer Friend, Let’s Talk
Fixer Friend, Let’s Talk . . .
I know you want to save the world and fix all the broken souls? I’m with you in this mission, but are we damaging our own souls in the process? Are we shutting the doors to our own needs?