How to learn to trust + giveaway

There's this thing in my family where we take walks. 

I'm sure we have people on our lonely country road 

who comment about how often we take walks, 

and how they only see us on the same stretch of dirt all the time.

It's something collective. 

Someone suggests it, and if you get someone else to come along 

that's usually the catalyst that surges into a group walk up. 

And when you have five siblings, yeah, it's usually a group walk.

But sometimes there's just the two of us.

And sometimes it takes longer to trust just one person 

than it does a whole group of them. 

I mean, there's a different kind of trust when you trust just one person.

I'm learning about trust. 

How you can sometimes lose it.

How you can sometimes not get it at all.

How vulnerable it is.

How it can hurt.

When little brother and I go out it's hot and muggy, and the dogs trail along through grass almost as tall as they are.

 

When there's just the two of us, and I've noticed this, 

it takes a little while to get talking, to feel each other out. 

And it's only when we've walked along together for a ways does the conversation pick up. 

When we've walked the same road across the same rocks crunching under our feet, 

climbed a hill, when we've stayed by each other's side, 

and that is when the words come, when the trust comes. 

When you've gone a little way with them and not turned back.

Why is trust so important?

Do you have something you'd like to say about it?

You have the chance in this week's giveaway.

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