What is radical acceptance? The other day one of my best friends said in a chat group, “People really need to learn to radically accept their disabilities.” This prompted another person to say something about not having heard of it, which confused us because our whole chat was a bunch of people who radically accepted they were disabled. Some of us were doing so, it seems, with no idea what the word for it was.
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Life Giving Flow
Water, the ever crashing sea to shore
The source in the mountains flow
A trickle, a stream down paths
Water erodes and water grows
It etches rocks, smoothes pebbles
Water, life giving, life taking
The soul of the planet, water
People’s tears in drought heart breaking
Water pours from stormy skies
And bring about the healing rains
But also deep deep floods of sorrow
How water, swirling, is our pains
Drink deep the well of love
The joy that life giving spring
And how we hold our memories
Wash us over in happy things
The river, time, in weaving lines
Flows ever forward to the seas
And in my life water constant
Relief, growth, pain, joy, it washes over me
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Love: A Biblical Essay written 2003
By Damien Knight
Love is Kind and forgiving, for it is said: “Love covers over all wrongs.” Proverbs 10:12. Goodness is part of love. To eat plain with love surrounding you is better than to have steak in a room filled with bitterness. Love is understanding, “He who covers and offense promotes love.” Proverbs 17:9. Many seek out love, yes even I, “What a man desires is unending love.” Proverbs 19:22. And many claim their love never fails. Yes, men might fail but love is unfailing. I choose to fill my heart with love.
Be Happy, Free (Oct 2012)
By Damien Knight
I felt so trapped here
Now I understand
I know what it means
The past I hate to dwell
On things I once said
That it was over
If I bury all pain
I can forget misery
If I smile and dream
Yes then it is over
Say it was once me
But now I’m happy
I now get it
Count my blessings
I once was angry
Now that’s not me
I won’t be that
I won’t be weak
It’s not who I am
Not me anymore
I am strong
Yes you can be sure
So lean on me
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Shame: Journal Written in 2003
By Damien Knight
Shame, what is it? Shame is not a feeling one should feel towards oneself.
Journal Dec 2003
By Damien Knight
Commentary in italics. I wrote this journal a month before my birthday while in a Louisville, Kentucky psychiatric facility. I was in the long-term ward. I spent my teen years in various psych facilities from the time I was 13 until I was 19 years old.
Head Strong
By Damien Knight
I can feel the ache in my bones
Pain of years gone by.
They said I wouldn’t make it on my own
Truth, they didn’t lie.
How can I stand on my feet
When I was given broke legs?
Taunt, call me weak!
I won’t cave, not a man who begs.
You can knock me down,
But you wont count me out!
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Our First Ask Me Anything
Answers Written By Damien Knight
Hello, I am Damien, the head blogger of our family blog The Shade of Writing. We are a home-school family of writers that love to travel. We write on various topics such as education, philosophy, poetry and history. We also have a Twitter, an Instagram and a YouTube.
I write poetry and share drafts of my novel when I am not in classes at the local university. My kids post their writing assignments from their books and papers on topics that interest them. My spouse travels for his job and most of our travel and food reviews are from him. We all are open to questions so ask away.
Motivational Monday: Dr. Martin Luther King
By Damien Knight
Today we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While I could write about what he means to people today but his words stand on their own.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
With today’s news and increased visibility of racial tensions let us not forget Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s dream. After all : “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
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Wednesday Wisdom: Your Path
By Damien Knight
How often do you pray? Every day, once a week? What are you praying for? Perhaps you have a big test and you want to pass? Do you pray then? To who? God? Or maybe just to your cats? And when you don’t pass is it then their fault? After all you prayed right?
The truth is no one can save you better than yourself. I won’t touch religion exactly today if ever on this blog. I won’t…
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