Tag: trust
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Novel Tarot: Trust Card- Spellcasting Oracle Deck
For Chapter 20 of The Lost Teachings of Dead Monks, the Trust card from the Spellcasting Oracle reveals Charlie’s desperate need to believe in an illusion—even as Lilah learns to trust the reality others have shown her.
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Do We Ever Really Know Anyone?
When I was very young, I believed I could really know someone after a few weeks of late-night talks. Decades and broken friendships later, I know better — and yet I still listen for the ones who say, “Welcome home.”
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If You Don’t Trust Him, Marry Him?
I am conducting experiments with Trust. Or rather, it is conducting experiments with me. What I cannot believe is how women who don’t trust their men marry themas quickly as they can, as if that’s some sort of guarantee that behaviors will change after the vows. Do they really believe that? I’m guessing not, given…
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“Trust Me?”
I confess, I’m still a little shaken. I haven’t told the person who shook me up or why, mainly because I’d have to explain something I’m still thinking through myself and working out here in this journal. “Trust me?” my friend asked toward the end of a conversation that had been going for about 4…
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And Not a Day Goes By….
One of my friends worries that her version of God isn’t taking care of me, but my version of God is. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t recognize that I am taken care of. Nowhere is that more obvious than after a near-miss with disaster. Many times, I’ve followed a path…
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Stars, Reality, and Perspective— and Loving Again
This is important for reasons I cannot yet fathom, except that I’m looking for what is real. We’re so sure of what reality is. We gaze at the night sky, at what’s not visible in the glare of harsh light, and congratulate ourselves on seeing the reality that those stars are there, both night…
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Why Hair Stylists Make Me Nervous
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. I wasn’t always nervous around hair stylists. And I’ve never been nervous about a bad cut or color because it grows out and it’s fixable. Most hair mistakes are easily fixable but some things aren’t, and that’s why I’ve sometimes been uncomfortable around them. Yes,…
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Letting It Grow: A Lesson in Patience and Trust in the Universe
Wouldn’t it have been ridiculous if….? The house I live in now had a hot tub when we moved into it. Evidently, this house had been a real entertainment spot for the previous residents—a Colonel who entertained his lieutenants with back yard beer parties. We didn’t use the hot tub very much—it was later struck…
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Whose Word Do You Take?
Then the colleague asks if I know a mutual acquaintance in Georgia, though she already knows the answer. She is testing me, based on what she’s been told. She’s a little surprised, she tells me, when I answer so positively. She expected, based on what she’s heard over Thanksgiving, that I’d say something negative. My…
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Intensely Personal Secrets
There are secrets I have that I will never divulge here. And there are secrets I’ve been told that I will never divulge anywhere, whether they are the secrets of those I love or of those I detest. We all keep secrets. Yes, even diarists who openly share their thoughts with friends in an effort…
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Confused, Torn, and What the Hell’s Next?
You know, if I wrote it in a novel, I’m dead sure that my editor would tell me it’s just not believable. But that’s why truth is stranger than fiction. In TV shows, they keep the guy and girl apart for as long as possible—a couple of seasons, maybe—to keep up the romantic conflict and…
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Deliverance
I’ve come to trust my intuition more than ever in the past year. And at the same time, there are still the times when I’m unsure. And I like to be sure. I do. It’s hard for me to commit to certain things now, but when I do, I’m in for the long haul. I…
