Tapestry Series #1
Life Doesn’t Wait for the Right Moment
I got married on a weekend I will never forget — not just because of the joy, which was real and full and everything I had hoped for — but because of what arrived alongside it.
In less than twenty-four hours, a new friend shared a diagnosis of terminal cancer.
Joy. And devastation. In the same breath. In the same body.
I remember thinking — how do I hold both of these?
How do I celebrate the happiest time of my life when someone has just shared the hardest news of their life? How do I grieve (I’m in tears at this point) when this is supposed to be the happiest day of mine?
And then something shifted. Not an answer exactly. More like a recognition.
This is life. All of it. At once.
Not life as we wish it would be — tidy, sequential, one thing at a time. But life as it actually arrives. In waves. In contradictions. In moments that refuse to be only one thing.
That weekend cracked something open in me that has never fully closed.
It showed me that joy and grief are not opposites. They are threads. And we are always, always weaving.
This is what I mean when I talk about the tapestry.
Not a pretty picture hung on a wall. But the actual fabric of a life — bright threads and dark ones, loose ends and tight knots, patterns we chose and patterns we inherited without knowing.
All of it counts.
All of it belongs.
Over the coming weeks I’ll be writing about what it means to embrace the whole tapestry — the parts we’re proud of and the parts we’d rather not look at. The wisdom passed down through our lineage and the wounds that traveled alongside it. The moments that broke us open and what we found inside.
Because here’s what I’ve come to know, after years
of sitting with women in their stories:
The threads we most want to cut out are often the ones
holding everything together.
Stay Close. There’s more to come.
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