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You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up

You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up

by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Oct 1, 2012 | Beautiful Things, Fresh Start

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” ~ Anne Lamott
We Are Here!–When Others Cry for Help

We Are Here!–When Others Cry for Help

by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Sep 13, 2012 | Broken Pieces

(From Horton Hears a Who) Mayor: They don’t believe we’re here! We’ve got to make some noise. We are here! We are here! We are here! Whoville: We are here! We are here! We are here! The movie goes on to show the people of Whoville as they try to convince the animals...
The Road Not Taken: When Trauma Forces You Places You Didn’t Want to Go

The Road Not Taken: When Trauma Forces You Places You Didn’t Want to Go

by D.B. Smyth | @DB_Smyth | Feb 21, 2012 | Beautiful Things, Broken Pieces, When Life Hurts

During a group therapy session for people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I was asked to respond to the following poem: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one...

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