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Beedledee Beedledum's avatar

Reading this is a balm to my soul. Thank you to @Jeanine Kitchel for recommending this post and your substack.

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Wow Maureen! this was simply the best best post--I absolutely love it. So many words of wisdom. Several stand out: " What if . . . the very path that looks like a detour is actually the road?"

"What if what’s meant for us can’t be missed, only stalled, delayed, avoided, or resisted until life, in its strange mercy, has its way with us?"

"What if the real question isn’t how to keep steering our destiny, but how to loosen our white-knuckle grip on the wheel?" Thank you so much for this post! I really needed this more than I knew-- and I love EVERY word of it, and have also been reading Eliz Bobrick's series on Oedipus, so it dovetails nicely. Gracias!!!!

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Maureen Elyse Gilbert's avatar

So glad it spoke to you - I wrote it because as a certified “white knuckles in the wheel of reality” driver I needed to hear this myself and hopefully believe it 🙏🏻

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Barbara Muller's avatar

Love this:He said yes to what called him, and that yes shaped a life no one, including him perhaps, could have predicted.

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Maureen Elyse Gilbert's avatar

Yes that is truly the magic of his story

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Cab's avatar

You brought me to tears. So much hope and so much inspiration. Thank you friend.

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Maureen Elyse Gilbert's avatar

Im glad it spoke to you

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Amy Dachs's avatar

Wisdom artfully expressed, as always, Maureen. Thank you for the gift of your words!

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Maureen Elyse Gilbert's avatar

So glad it spoke to you and thank you for supporting my writing 🙏🏻🫶🏻

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