Sleep, it’s the easiest thing to do. You just close your eyes but for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp. We want it but we don’t know how to get it and turn to each other for help.
We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss, once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is fairy tales don’t come true. It’s the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It’s the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase “Happily Ever After” should have had his ass kicked so hard.
I'm friends with the monster under my bed, but on occasions we fall out and it is the worst. Never underestimate your enemy.
We all get at least one good wish a year, over the candles on our birthday. Some of us throw in more on eyelashes, fountains, lucky stars. And every now and then, one of those wishes comes true. So what then? Is it as good as we hoped? Do we bask in the warm glow of our happiness? Or do we just notice we have a long list of wishes waiting to be wished.
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We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. We wish because we need help and we’re scared. And we know we may be asking to much. We still wish though because sometimes they come true.
3 months ago I listened to this song a lot. Made me feel good and the monster crawled back under the bed to sleep...for a while.
Anna, Johanna and Jennie....thank you for being there for me. I'm truly blessed to have you in my life.




