Tears are a river that take you somewhere. Weeping creates a river around the boat that carries your soul-life. Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace new, someplace better. Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
I got my Nourishing Tears Magents yesterday.
They’re 4″x2 1/2 ” and are $7 each including shipping. You can buy them in my Etsy Shop, just click here. Or if you don’t like using Etsy you can want to send a check or use Paypal or Venmo, just email me at [email protected].
What a beautiful quote. I didn’t think I’d order a magnet. But then last week again someone told me not to cry. A good friend who is moving away. My whole life I’ve been sensitive, often trying to hide it. But the older I’ve gotten the more I stand up for myself about this. As I said to my friend, “Please don’t tell me not to cry. It’s how I process things.” I realize crying can make others uncomfortable and they want to “fix” it, but crying for me, is healing and helps me to move forward. So now I have to have a magnet to remind me of this quality and beauty of crying.
That’s such a good point to make Barb. I too cry easily. Most people I know discouraged it. Jon was the first man I met who wasn’t bother by my crying. He appreiates it, like you say, that you feel and express your feeling so easily. I heard an interview with Joan Baez once where she told the interviewer in a very matter of fact way that “she cries” all the time. AS if it were just a part of who she is.
Your magnets are beautiful and after the decision to over turn Roe vs Wade they represent something very important. That for me as we mourn the loss, our collective tears will nourish not only our own souls but nourish us together to find a way to protect the women in this nation.
Thanks for that interpretation of the nourishing tears Josie. You said it so well.