Friday: Be gentle with you cause you are the only you you got.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

During these times of change and sadness, it is very easy to go back and look at life and say: I should have done this or that differently. Like we can change the past? How foolish is that? I love my life mistakes, flaws and all. I could have spent my life doing nothing and where would I be. A brain filled with no memories and a heart dead to the zest and chaos of life.

As I get caught in my reverie, I realize there are no truer words than those spoken by my sister Glenna: We are all doing the best that we can. Sometimes in times of trouble and heartache, we punish ourselves more by saying I should do this or that and then we compound it when the times have changed and are more stable by continuing the litany I should have done this or that. Truth is we didn’t do this or that, we just did what we did and we moved on.

Today, embrace your errors, your flaws, your mistakes and bless your honorable efforts to embrace life with passion and intensity that makes being human a little more special.

Be gentle with you cause you are the only you you got.