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“Because you want the client to identify with the horse. You want the client to put their own labels on the horse. If a horse is exhibiting a certain behavior that you want the client to identify with, you don’t want the client to have any preconceived ideas about who or what that horse is. That horse needs to be whoever the client needs it to be.”
“Everyone always talks about being color blind. And I get that. I do. But maybe instead of being color blind, we should celebrate color, in all its shades. It kind of bugs me that we’re supposed to ignore our differences like we don’t see them, when seeing them doesn’t have to be a negative.”
“My mom lets the kids tell her five things that are bothering them, things they needed to express. They count them off on their fingers.” Georgia grabbed my hand and ticked the items off on my fingers to demonstrate. “Like, I’m tired. I miss my mom. I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to go to school. I’m scared. Whatever. Then they make a fist with the fingers they just used to express their problems. And then they throw the things away, they toss them.”
I was cracked so the brilliance could spill out. And it was spilling out, brilliant and brutal.
We can’t escape ourselves. So we stick together until we find ourselves, all right? Until we figure out how to deal.”
“Poe said, ‘There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.’”
lying next to me, looking up at a blue sky that wasn’t really blue. Color isn’t real. I had a science teacher tell me that color is simply the way our eyes interpret the energies contained within a beam of light. So did the blue sky lie by making me believe it was something that it wasn’t?
wished so many times that I could just have a second to breathe. I was tired a lot. I was trying to work and go to school and take care of Eli. And I just wished for silence. So many times I just wanted to sleep. I just wanted to be alone. You know how they say, be careful what you wish for?”
