Yet the fact remains

that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose,

cast our awful solemnity to the winds

and join in the general dance.

~Thomas Merton

oh how I miss something I did not know I did not have….

inquiry for today~ what is happening now?

when life is bold

Hope is holding a creative tension

between what is and what could and should be,

each day doing something

to narrow the distance between the two.

~Parker J. Palmer