Once upon a time, when women were birds,

there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn

and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy.

The birds still remember what we have forgotten,

that the world is meant to be celebrated.

~Terry Tempest Williams

there’s no place I’d rather be….

inquiry for today~ when loneliness is common now……

how it feels right now

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness.

It’s the capacity to understand that every war is won and lost.

And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.

~Barbara Kingsolver