We Are What We Choose To Be
ServiceSpace
--Awakin
1 minute read
Oct 11, 2015

 

This week's Awakin reading is by Dawna Markova titled 'We Are What We Choose to Be': On rare and precious moments, someone will tell me about when he used to play the saxophone or when she used to dream about opening a halfway house for abused women or when he thought he could mentor boys in the inner city or when she was going to write a book about how she made it through her childhood. And they light up. There is no other way to describe what happens. Their cheeks flush, their bodies become animated, their voices are electric as they speak. For a moment, the clock stops ticking. Then they pause, shake themselves the way a dog does on a hot day after swimming in a cool lake, and they crawl back in their girdle, talk about money and time and reasons why not. "Well, (...) I am not the sort of a person who could just... I wouldn't feel like me that way." I ... [Read more]

 

Posted by Awakin on Oct 11, 2015