Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.
— Mark Nepo
Admit comes from the Latin admittere — to let in. Same root family as emit, to send out. We spend so much energy keeping truth out.
Poet Mark Nepo doesn’t see admitting as confession or weakness. He sees it as a door — one that opens straight into connection.
Denial doesn’t erase what’s true. It just locks the door. Admitting is how we align with reality long enough to take one small step: fixing it, changing it, or simply carrying it honestly.
To ourselves, especially. Admitting who we are — gifts and flaws — builds wholeness, not shame. Outrunning our feelings isn’t neutral; it’s a war we keep losing quietly. Admitting ends the war.
And when we drop the pretense, we make room — for real relationships, for grace, for something new.
Maybe it’s a job that’s dead. A fear you’re hiding behind. A life you’ve outgrown.
What do you need to let in?
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Wellbeing Ideas
Fit Check: Do you know how to optimally ties your shoes?
I’ve been hiking a lot and when the feet hurt, everything does. This is low key helpful and specific.
What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
Do favors for tomorrow you.
Google your problems
Store eye drops in the fridge
Only buy one kind /color socks
Cook rice in chicken or veg stock
Clip nails outside (been doing since I was a kid)
The Secret To Living Your True Story
More from one of my favorite poets and clear thinkers, Mark Nepo
A Wildlife Highway in the YUKON
Stay Well, Eileen
