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

there is nothing worth more than the peace I leave behind…

inquiry for today~ tell me a story…..

the fundamentals….

Even when we are in the thick muddiness of our pain, despair, and tenderness,

we can grow through it as long as we are alive and present enough to bear witness.

~Alex Elle