09/28/08
For You, I Wish My Respect and Admiration
by: Tricia LaVoice
You taught me to be strong without being tough, to be gentle without being frail, confident without being arrogant. I walked behind you watching every step you took. The way you spoke to strangers, the way you greeted a friend. Your ability to love all as equals and live in the truth, your passion for life all instilled in me a desire to do more , be more. You were my teacher, my mentor, my friend and you knew the hardest lessons I needed to learn you could not teach me so you let me go. In your absence I struggled, I wept, I questioned feeling abandoned and even betrayed. But soon I learned what only I could teach myself. I learned to be alone without being lonely and to hold myself in the same esteem I held you and others. I found my own passions, my own purposes. Now I am prepared to walk at your side. I look in front of me, but you are nowhere to be found. You are beside me and I now realize you were there all along. For you, I wish my respect and admiration.
09/02/08
For You, I Wish Strength & Courage
by: Tricia LaVoice
I remember a time when pain meant scraping your knee against the pavement, problems were solved in math class and loss only existed on fliers posted to a telephone poll for a missing pet. Our greatest worry was catching the ice cream truck, our greatest conflict was over the rules in a game of hide and seek. Life was magical and full of wonder. We could have no more concieved the challenges we would face in the years to come than we could of how the sand man got into our house every night. Pain, worry, conflict sneak up on us in adult sizes not concerned about rules, fair or unfair. We learn that pain is as much a part of life in adulthood as play is in childhood. That problems cannot be solved if they are not faced and the first thing we lose trying to hide from the pain is ourselves. To seek happiness is not enough, we must have courage and strength to address our problems, face our pain, even when it feels like an unfair game. Then we can see clearly that much of life still remains magical and wondrous. For you, I wish you strength and courage to face your hardships and see the wonder.
09/01/08
I was so honored to be asked by Starbucks to write a personal quote for their national campaign called "The Way I See It". They print these quotes on the side of their cups. I decided to talk about why I think memories are so important to us living forever. Here is the quote...
The way we get to live forever is
through memories stored in the
hearts and souls of those whose
lives we touch. That’s our soul
print. It’s our comfort, our
emotional nourishment at the end
of the day and the end of a life.
How wonderful that they are called
up at will and savored randomly.
It seems to me we should spend our
lives in a conscious state of
creating these meaningful moments
that live on. Memories matter.- Leeza Gibbons
08/28/09
For You, I Wish the First Step
by: Tricia LaVoice
Do I envy you, the one who has found a love deeper than the ocean’s floor, more worthy than the air circulating your lungs, a friend who will never betray you? A friend who will never judge you, just comfort you like a fetus in the womb. You have found her, you have found him and you are now delivered from the abyss of emptiness that rest inside you… Do I envy you? No, I pity you. Your love I call addiction and she is laughing at you as she carves in to you leaving nothing but the flesh that bonds you. Her passion runs deep into your veins, your mind flows above the pain and sorrows of yesterday but you sad bones lie like scrap on the dirt floor. Your addiction is he and he lures you with his strength and power that you crave. His command drapes you in confidence protecting you from all that shames you. Your addition is everything and everyone but you. Like a jealous lover your addiction demands all of you leaving everyone you love invisible. Do I envy you? I envy that you have people loving you willing to help. I wish for you the first step to see them too.
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