Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day,

there is always lurking close at hand

the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

~Howard Thurman

from the inside is where I begin….

inquiry for today~ carry on and carry on my friend….

intense remembrances

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key?

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

~May Sarton