How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

by Leslie Jordan

“Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.”

Poor me. Poor me. Pour me a drink.

I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.

there was no shame in saying “I do not have this in me.”

true happiness can only come from being “of loving service to others.”

Hymns were sung when we were born, hymns were sung when we got married and hymns will be sung when we are put in the ground.

I think our dreams are what sustain us in hard times. Dreams are what keep us childlike.

Hopefully by now, we have progressed to the point where fearing a child might be queer is way down the list of parental fears.

Slowly, I began to realize how much my imagined fears and how much my shame had hindered me throughout my life. Since then, I have tried to live a fearless and shame-free life in the Sunlight of the Spirit,

The thing about shame is that it is so selective. I knew my dad loved me. He showed it daily in a million different ways. So why remember failures?