Choosing presence means I’m there for the small moments, the hard questions, the emotional weather patterns that pass through little bodies trying to make sense of a big world with all it's expectations and that doesn’t always pay in cash but it pays in closeness. Closeness, I said. A currency I refuse to devalue.
In closing, I feel it relevant to mention that forgiveness is more than just making peace with an event, a person, a group of people and so on. True, deep and meaningful forgiveness means that you make peace with yourself for the discontent that could cost you your sanity in each moment of your precious, human life.