To keep our hearts open

is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

~Leonard Cohen

wishing all the beauteous things…

inquiry for today~ may you tell it well….

having an understanding…..

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. It means acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

~Brenda Shaughnessy