Virtually all the people important to me are Orthodox Jews. Around one or two or three of them, I really like who I am.<\/p>\n
I need to figure out how to expand that. How do I live more of my life as that person I really like?<\/p>\n
Around certain people, I’m congruent and integrated. I’m real yet appropriate. I’m true to my core self.<\/p>\n
I am mainly like this on Shabbat.<\/p>\n
And when I was in therapy. That was my favorite 90-minutes of my week. I used to talk to my therapist about how I could expand that honesty to more of my life and to communicate with others in the deep way I did with her.<\/p>\n
I never had much success with that.<\/p>\n
In the movie "The Accidental Tourist<\/a>," the protagonist explains his love for a woman far below him in social class: "I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them."<\/p>\n If there were no limitations nor consequences, if I could not fail, how would I spend my day? Writing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Virtually all the people important to me are Orthodox Jews. Around one or two or three of them, I really like who I am. I need to figure out how to expand that. How do I live more of my … Continue reading