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
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
~Lionel Hampton