From the Garden of Grace

“Leslie now is…sensitive. Quieter. And she cries a lot. It is okay to be Still for a while. I am both the unstoppable force and the immovable object…and when they collide, it's all three—the force, the object, and their confluence. I'm a lot of paradoxes. I am ‘Both And.’”

“I’m in bloom, and I’ve arrived. I know who I am…that’s the phrase that keeps coming up: Betting on myself. I’m excited.”

“Now I am who I’ve always been but wasn’t able to be…This was the untangling of that to remember who I am as ease and a flowing river.”

“There is such a relief in just being the type of person and the woman I want to be…[Now] I celebrate life. Just living.”

“Now I enjoy sharing my gifts with the world…I’m now someone who embraces her enchanted sight and goes through the world with those eyes on.”