If life is good, don’t just sit there — dance!
If life’s not so good — dance even more.
adversity
War paint
We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.
Bent & broken
“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Great Expectations, 1861
Refuge
Tea time — a brief recess from dodging life’s blowdarts.
Healing stronger
Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we’ve been through.
Water cycle
to cry is beautiful —
the beauty of one’s pain
leaving the heart
blackout poetry created from Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked Away, 2014
Fusion
Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the only thing holding us together.
In pieces
The emotions are part of the wound.
Tough as concrete
Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete. But try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that love and flowers can grow through.
Bartleby
How can something bother you if you won’t let it?
Pain is a story
Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
@Risk
Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards
Soaring
Give your stress wings and let it fly away.