These are a pair of rose quartz boots. I made them out of about 30 pounds of rose quartz. I’d work one section at a time, applying the quartz and then stabilizing the boots overnight. I did this for several weeks until this donated pair of boots became, *THE* rose quartz boots that you see here. ***tone shift*** We were beaten children. We were raised by parents who were beaten as children who were raised by parents who were beaten as children who were raised by parents who were beaten and. When i was a kid it perplexed me, the hot, living space between love and beatings. I worried about my parents for having laid hands on us so much, for the brutality to bruise children. . I became a fantasizer before I knew that that was a thing. I fantasized a life for myself that was a life outside of the strange mean pain that our house could be. . I am realizing things now about having been beaten as a child for making the mistakes that a child makes in their becoming...in their growing. Here are some of these things, perhaps they will resonate with you: - i have a dramatically misaligned sense of what a *mistake* is and what *mistake* means. - i often feel that love and forgiveness must be earned, worked for, paid into, proved and proven into. This space means that there is very little simple ease of believing myself to be deserving of love or forgiveness. At times I will beat myself up with fervor i have denied myself my own love and heart, (but myself patiently waits at the heart-step of my own self for the love and forgiveness that seeps in and surrenders itself to myself. All the time. I have been here the whole time.) - my empathetic heart knows how to give... less how to receive. . I don’t say these things confessionally, but communally. I know that there are so many of us who run these thought-form loops— even through the vast landscapes of the ever-healing, ever-knowing heart— these most original shape-shifted places visit with us in our soft and still places— sitting long or just gazing in through the window. . And these rose quartz boots... to know that love walks with us and is Infinitely Available. May you offer love to yourself freely and FEEL IT.