there are larger lessons we should be learning, like how to sit across from a person when he or she is crying and how to respond without being too corny, and how to remember what books you have read and how to remember names and how to ask questions when the road is very silent and you are afraid of the answers. and how to stand up without scraping chair legs. and how to keep in touch when you aren’t touching. and how to have fear but very loosely, how to loosen your fears. and how to let love be the choice you are making at all sorts of different turns. and how to name trees. how to write a letter. how to want the exact life you are already living, and how to let that contentment keep you joyful but not static. how to pack. how to walk into a room and claim yourself as you are. how to be honest. how to pray. how to let the past, pass. how to listen. how to cry. how to get up and go. and how to trust time, how to trust God, how to trust yourself. these things. 

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