A Meditation For My Fellow Older Siblings: It’s Okay To Release Control!
Understanding How To Release
After I consider my childhood, I picture my brothers and sisters and me running with the forest in northern California, dragging our plastic sleds across a snowy forest floor. Summers are shaded with simplicity: my sister and me tacking up boyband posters within the treehouse, untangling your garden hose and turning the spa right into a “swimming pool.” Even the petty fights: over clothes, over hair clips, over who will get to make use of the telephone first.
“In my memory, I had been forever in charge, my troop safe and shut within my actions.”
My fondest memory though is really a recurring one. Every Christmas Eve, my more youthful brother and 2 more youthful siblings would pile into my bed, a nest of blankets and pillows holding us together. I’d wake ...