Ready or Not

by Cara Bastone

Even when I feel ugly, let the love in. Let someone care for me, tenderly, because they love me, not because I can’t do it myself. Feel creativity with an urgency and thrill that literally gets me out of bed. Put half-baked ideas down on paper and work hard to round them out and rejoice when it works. Remember that change, opportunity, a new day; it’s always growing inside me, and the best thing I can ever do is let it out into the world.