Strength

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

~ Douglas Coupland

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It takes true strength to acknowledge our own stories.  Strength in the form of courage and love and forgiveness and with a power of curiosity not everyone has the privilege of accessing.  There are pieces missing.  There are false leads.  We have to persist to find our own answers.

Others may guide us, but we have to find our own way.  And sometimes our answers may not fit in the prescribed structure of a given day or a given world or life's puzzle or life's question.  It doesn't mean it is wrong.  It is just different.

For example, when Leslie was doing a crossword puzzle and she asked me: What is a symbol of strength "blank -  a - k"

Me:  YAK?

She later calculated the "correct" answer was "oak."

Does that make my answer wrong?  I don't think so.  I think it is just as right.  It may not be as easy a fit, but sometimes we have to overcome cross words with our own kind words.  So, "yak" it is.

Or yak it up, if you will.

Or just yak if you're ill.

Words are fun.