Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion on our fathers for centuries untold, and which, to us, looks eternal, may change.

Today it is fair, tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds.
-Sealth

Thinking about things like compassion/forgivness lately. And the idea that perhaps I have held to tightly to my pain while using it to define myself as one of the major things in my life. And the fact that it has cost me, my children and those around me regardless of my intentions. It has come to be the one thing I know. I am not sure I like that. I don't know how to do anything else. I know it is a mechanism I use to protect myself. But knowing it and changing it are two very different things.