the privilege to feel

as i grow, i realize evermore that my joyous peaks are found seldom in lavish or grandiose gestures, but rather, stumbled across serendipitously, in the mundanities and simplicities within the intertwining fabric of everyday existence.

this past year, i became life’s student through a lesson in feeling: the capacity to be open enough to feel the full spectrum of emotion — from the most exalted high to an unimaginable, soul-splitting low, is an…