They Say The Love Of Someone Is The Great Power In The World. I Am Now Sure. As I See The Love Of Themselves

They say the love of someone is the great power in the world. I am now sure. As I see the love of themselves tear apart a family. The love I have for someone now dead still feels so alive in my heart 10 years later. I have seen the love for a man cause someone I love to abandon and break me. And regardless of how broken I become I forgive them and love then anyway.

- Sequoia Red (from my upcoming book October Sky)

I hate that I am completely capable of helping everyone else figure everything out. But not only can I not figure my own life out they never have the inclination to assist me with figuring it out.

Sequoia Red (journal) WWW.sequoiared.tumblr.com

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Anne Lamott (via stoppingandseeing)

I am always there when you need me. It's my responsibility and my obligation and I should be there as you need me. But when I need you, you are not there. I call and you do not answer nor return. I end up sitting on the floor, wishing I wasn't forced to always be alone when this happens. But it always turns out this way.

Sequoia Red

“I’m doing everything and yet, I’m still failing. I am always the one who falls behind.”

Sequoia Red