And so I just kept writing to myself.
Kimberly NovoselTag: writing writers writer journal journaling
I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love sadness darkness light sunshine curtains hardwood-floors
It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.
Kimberly NovoselTag: growing-up moving-on purple painting paint blue saying-goodbye
I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love god faith sad emptiness empty paint break-up heartbroken love-story
I threw his framed picture off my balcony just to hear my heart break.
Kimberly NovoselTag: sad heartbreak break-up heartbroken heart-break
Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love courage faith heart brave listen-to-your-heart
I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love relationships enemies forgiveness football heartbreak exes
I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love lost inspiration god loss faith prayer obstacles walls
On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.
Kimberly NovoselTag: life love relationships sky drive weight road-trip cross-country dome-sky tumbleweed
We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have all of him again, but I was always leaving and he was tired of watching me walk away. We both knew that I couldn’t stay and that he couldn’t come with me, but still, we couldn’t let go.
Kimberly NovoselTag: love kiss relationships holding-back walls walk-away let-go
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