Thing I learned 2017:
* The most vulnerable part of loving someone is trusting that they love you back. That very assumption requires a great deal of generosity.
* The fear of how your fall was perceived is always far greater than the fear of falling. You can either fall in style or get back up like a champion. The former is totally out of your control.
* A lot of conversations that were interrupted by time, unwillingness or distance in 2017 were ones that would take an ugly path to an astoundingly beautiful and freeing place. I'm going to try and be uninterrupted in 2018
* People talk about everyone talking about everyone else, talking about you talking about them. It's relentless and everyone pretends it doesn't happen. #bringbackfacesandfeelings
* Relationships take constant championing up to. You must always analyze, reassess and salvage. You never get what you expect. You will always end up with what you create.
* I'm still having to convince people in 2017 that dance isn't a sport. I have a long way of a lot to take on in my career
• Intelligence got NOTHING on wisdom. Just as passion got nothing on skill.
* The artist in you draws from the risks you take that end up defining you and highlighting your destiny. With each failure go back and be kind to her/him.
• Wisdom isn't a mere resource or an innate need to protect the foolish. Wisdom has what it takes to walk away from certain lifestyles or conversations without feeling superior.
* It's okay to say no. Say it more often. Not because they are undeserving but because you aren't either.
* I'm no longer a serial killer of plants this signals tremendous growth and maturity. Thankyou
* When you compare yourself to people, you rob them of honor and yourself of authenticity
• If you're not powerfully and vulnerably grateful along every high and every low, you let fear and regret substitute joy
* What makes a relationship so attractive to me is when it doesn't come with ideals or life equations. The kind that'll lean in or out when needed. The kind that will be completely organic in the messes and in the times of glory. (Stupendously blessed in that area, shitty parts of the year and all.)
* Men and women have a looong way till they get to equality. Hopefully another year, another step closer.
