Tenderness Project

In the summer of 2016 I embarked…

On a journey I referred to as "40 Days of Tenderness". It was life changing. And after much encouragement from my friends I have decided to write about it. 

More to come... 

A beginning...

Forty days of tenderness, as I like to call it, began as an exercise in not hating someone totally worthy of hate. Well, maybe not worthy of hate ,but who had certainly earned  my personal contempt. There are people in life who behave in such a way that elicits, in sane and rational people, well, it mostly elicits door slamming. And slam doors, I did.

I don't think this person can even recall me slamming  a door in their face because if you're the type of person who elicits a door slamming response, you are certainly not the type of person who is aware enough, that the door slamming in your general vicinity… is because of you. But the other persons behavior aside, I found myself sitting alone realizing I was a person who slammed doors. And while the contempt may have been earned, I still showed no restraint with it. That person may live their life as a child dressed in a man suit, but ultimately I slammed the door. I was the type of person to slam a door in someones face. And maybe I didn't want to be that person. 

And maybe you're not that type of person, but if you are, or if deep in your soul in the quiet spaces you are slamming imaginary doors then Forty Days of Tenderness is also for you.