Cracked and Imperfect

A poem for your Friday. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for my autumn writing series. Spaces limited.

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If we are built differently, why on earth are we ever trying to be the same? We aren’t supposed to be the same, we aren’t supposed to write the same, we aren’t supposed make the same art, or have the same beliefs, or love the same thing, or love the same way, or speak the same way. That’s, well, that’s what machines do. —Ada Limón

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Hello friend,

Below is a poem that invites you to give yourself permission to be your whole, real, cracked and imperfect self.

Which is also the invitation for my upcoming Write Yourself Free series:

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Permission to be Ourselves

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This is a 6 week series, beginning on: Tuesday, September 15th: 3:00-5:00PM (PST)

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Early bird registration is now open (until 8/7/26)

No early bird deadline for paying subscribers of my Substack page.

This will be an intimate group, limited to 15 participants.

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Write Yourself Free is about coming home to your own voice, about freeing yourself so that you can write & live from true, rather than writing and living from a place of trying to be "good."

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Click below to read more…

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Cracked and Imperfect

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     There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s
     how the light gets in
            —Leonard Cohen

If it doesn’t have to be pretty or profound
or perfect, maybe it can
simply be true.

And what is true?

The red flowering currant does not
know how to try, yet she fills
us with glorious color,

rivers do not need a map,
yet they know
just how to get to the sea—

our sun never speaks
a word, yet she
gives life to everything.

So, in case you need permission,
please, just be the you
that you are, simply speak
what is true—

let yourself be
cracked
and imperfect—

it’s how the light gets in.

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The above poem is 1 of 100 poems in my new book This Too: Words To Walk You Home. Click HERE to order a signed copy(S).

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This Too out & about in the world

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PS: There are few things I love more than being a guest poet in communities that are rooted in mindfulness.

If you facilitate such a community and would like to have me as your guest, please feel free to reach out.

My email address is: writeyourselffree@gmail.com If you’re receiving this in your inbox, you can simply hit reply. xo

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The replay of Tuesday’s Write Yourself Free class (my once a month class via Substack) is now available to paid subscribers. Click HERE to access the replay.

What a rich class it was. To those of you who showed up for the live class, thank you so much for your beautiful presence & vulnerability. 💓

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