you are perfect

just one item today because i’m tired and it’s that good.

i am grateful:

1) that a friend wrote this to me in response to a moment of my over-analytical fretting and self-doubt:

“you know what? I think you’re perfect just as you are, and I think that you are a wonderful human being. we spend so much time trying to understand what we’re doing and why and how to be ‘better’ that I just want you to know that you are perfectly perfect as you are.”

amen, sister. and thank you. and to you, reader, i offer the same reminder.