Honest

I think of myself as an honest person, someone who values speaking the truth and doesn’t shy away from owning his mistakes. It is true that I sometimes exaggerate and I can spin a story or a situation in the direction that best serves my interests at the moment. Not uncommon, I suppose, and not sufficient to change the basic story.

There is another form of honesty that has to do with whether or not I choose to show my true self to others. I notice, for example, that these entries are sometimes opaque – designed, perhaps, to be obscure rather than to speak directly and clearly. Now, I’m not meaning to be too critical of myself here. It's a way to protect myself and that's fine. I just observe that if I’m going to continue to write these entries with my original intention - to write from my heart as a way to connect with myself and others - it serves me to be as clear as I can.

I suppose there’s a limit to how much of myself I am willing to expose (even though I suspect that my sharing here reaches a limited audience) and that’s exactly fine. What I want, though, is to decide what I’m game to share and share that much with language that speaks to me and those who care to track this on-going exercise in making the internal visible.

Blessings

Marco