I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Ahhh. How I love this quote. This is the difference between someone knowing you and truly seeing you. To your depths. Under all the layers, over the walls, and through the disguises. When you talk with the people who hear what you are not saying you sense it. It can be unnerving, for they see all of us. Not just that which we project. When we meet those "kindred spirits" as I like to think of them, they hear the words we say and feel those we do not.

I have a few of these people in my life. Interestingly, it is in the past year that I have added a few of these very special people who see me. We seek out each others perspective because their opinion is so valid, for they KNOW us. They often force us to see what we perhaps would not like to.

When in turmoil, when struggling.... it is these few people I turn to for advice. I am lucky that one of these people is my brother. He is one of those people who 'gets' it. Do I always like his perspective? No. Do I always appreciate it in the long run? Yes. Sometimes, it is small comments that set me spinning. Like his observation that since my personal re-discovery in the last year that I am back to being Krista once again. Krista + more. I am fully seated in myself again.

I hope so. But this path is scary. I so love and appreciate those that see and hear what I do not say. How rare these people are. It is their contact that redirect my path, provide me with a mirror on life. This quote is so applicable to me... the outgoing talker. I say much, but little of it is truly personal or exposing. It is what I do not say.....