that time i shrank myself for 30 years

The Box where I spent most of my life didn’t treat me too badly, at least as long as I was ignorant to all that was beyond The Box. Anyone who has seen the milky way in all its undimmed majesty cannot but be humbled with the enormity of what is out there. All the possibilities and unknowns. And that was me the first time I glimpsed a life beyond the smallness of The Box. From that vision-changing moment forward, the longer I remained in The Box, the greater the suffocating sensation of having to shrink myself to still fit within its confines. I knew I could only stay if I was willing to crush my own soul.

And so I broke out.

And now, here I am as an almost fifty year old and finally feel like I am growing UP– into my own voice, my own opinions, and really, into my very own SELF.

It feels good to s t r e t c h and R E A C H for things that felt so impossible and improbable and as a newly hatched woman in The World of Anything is Possible, I am naive enough to believe it.

So here I am world- unapologetically UNshrinking and being LOUD and taking up space. So much space. There is so much of that beautiful firmament to explore and I’m suiting up!