Paradoxically, what immediately surfaces for me when i consider enoughness is the consistent and persistent feedback I have received about being too much. Not being enough has its roots for me in being told I am too much. I have been told repeatedly that I am too...
Sometimes being enough means simply standing still. At the beginning of 2009, I took my first writing class. As a beginning writer – and beginning writing student - I had the usual first day nerves, worried my fellow classmates would all be better than me and...
Five years ago I was on the fast-track. Good job. Nice paycheck. Swanky office. Smartphone full of beeps and buzzes letting me know that people neededme, asap. I was miserable. I would drive to work and wonder why this all wasn’t more fulfilling. I was ambitious and wasn’t...
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:14 (NIV)I am enough...
You know that scene in Mary Poppins where Mary pulls out her magic tape measure and uses it see how Jane and Michael measure up? No? You don’t? Well, I do. Let me give you quick recap. Mary measures each of the Banks children to...
I like to make up games for myself, to practice things that are hard for me. One I created recently is the Bare Minimum Game, in which I take the list (written or imagined) of things I think I should do or need to do,...
There was a time when I was confidant. I remember it. A time when I looked at the mirror and liked my reflection. A time when my creations were worth showing. A time when my inner critic was not there. A time when I loved myself. Then High school happened. I...
How to Paint a DonkeyBy Naomi Shihab Nye She said the head was too large,the hooves too small.I could clean my paintbrushbut I couldn’t get rid of that voice.While they watched,I crumpled him,let his blue body stain my hand,I cried when he hit the can.She smiled....
I didn’t know what to say, how to tell my story. I hadn’t had an I-am-enough moment. Far from it. My moments seemed to highlight how I am not enough. I was going to write a letter to myself. The letter was going to be full of apologies. It...
Aloha! Did you know that those little elations that dwell deep down in the depths of your heart (those dreams and aches that we so often ignore)… did you know that they exist for a reason? It is not always apparent. They often seem trivial,...