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Soul Sister

When I moved to California in 1998 I was looking for change in my life. I knew they way I was living my life up and to that point was not working for me.  It wasn't that I did not like the friends I had, it was I did not like myself and the way I experienced myself through them.  I was pretty sure that I had no idea as to how to make my life work or make a friendship work.   What I did not realized at the time was, experiencing that I did not know put me in the exact right place for knowing.  Some refer to this as Zen mind beginners mind.  Being able to say to yourself that you know that you don't know puts you at step one.  If you haven't come to that conclusion yet, you haven't begun.   One of the things that I longed for was a sister, a friend that would have my back no matter what.  I suppose I did not believe that because I didn't have this kind of relationship with my blood family that I couldn't have one.  I had an idea as to what...