Adventures in vulnerability.

I ache today. Mentally. Physically.

I ache today. Mentally. Physically.

It’s been a bulldozer of a day. Of a week, even. It’s been good but just… exhausting. I’ve been good but just… a little all over the place. Not sleeping well in the heatwave. More emotional. More connected. Teetering towards overwhelm. Alternately sky-high and crushingly low. Just TIRED. And all those other things that we say without words.

I’ve got through it. As I always do. As we always do (god willing). But it’s not always easy to. And that’s what I want to talk about today.

I am tired and I don’t have all the answers.

I am tired and sometimes I don’t want people to look to me for answers, either.

I am tired and I just need a rest.

And I am pained, too. And sometimes I’m pained in ways that I can’t express. Blood runs thicker than water, and there is too much context. Sometimes I don’t want to have to explain. I just want to be understood.

You don’t need to know it all in order to understand.

You don’t need to know anything, even. And maybe that’s the s…