You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story – – –
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.

~Mary Oliver

these simple ways of showing up…

inquiry for today~ may your day unfold in kind memories

focused on the beating of the heart…

At some point we need to stop identifying with our weakness

and shift allegiance to our basic goodness.

~Pema Chodron