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Screen time is easy because I don’t like to get bored and I love to play online

Finding Balance: of surgeries and Life

October 21, I had carpal tunnel surgery on my left wrist/hand. The pain attacked me out of the blue in early September right after I moved apartments…
Finding Balance: of surgeries and Life

You must Walk Alone

If you ever get the chance, go alone. Walk alone, travel alone, live alone, dance alone. Just for a while. If you ever get the chance, learn who you are when the world isn’t demanding you be one way or another.

Most people only know how to stand on their own if someone else will stand beside them. Don’t let that be your story.

When you get the chance, know that the opportunity to walk alone, even for a bit, is a rare gift, one that will hand you insight that can change the course of your life.

Brianna Wiest 💫

My favorite food is chicken

I am proud of my will to survive

I have been working on « waiting

Lazy Days make me feel rested and unproductive Both

Words matter….

Instead of saying I know what it feels like”, let’s say “I cannot imagine your heartbreak”.

Instead of saying, “You’re strong, you’ll get through this, let’s say ” You’ll hurt, and I’ll be here.

Instead of saying, “You look like you’re doing well, Let’s say, “How are you holding up today?”

Instead of saying, “Healing takes time”, let’s say “Healing has no timeline”.

Instead of saying, “Everything happens for a reason, let’s say “This must feel so terribly senseless right now”.

And when there are no words to say at all, you don’t need to try and find some. Love speaks in silences too.

~ ‘Words’ by Ullie-Kaye
Artwork by Marie Ange Sylberman

Best, Jay

Irish Tea

“In Ireland, you go to someone’s house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you’re really just fine. She asks if you’re sure. You say of course you’re sure, really, you don’t need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don’t need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn’t mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it’s no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don’t get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”

Best, Jay