I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.

I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.

I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven’t grown up.

My time is too short:

I want the essence,

my soul is in a hurry.

I don’t have many sweets

in the package anymore.

I want to live next to human people,

very human,

who know how to laugh at their mistakes,

and who are not inflated by their triumphs,

and who take on their responsibilities.

Thus human dignity is defended and we move towards truth and honesty.

It is the essential that makes life worth living.

I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.

Yes, I’m in a hurry, I’m in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.

I don’t intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.

I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.

My goal is to reach the end satisfied

and at peace with my loved ones

and my conscience.

We have two lives.

And the second begins when you realize you only have one.

~Mário Raul de Morais Andrade

how I long to know bliss….

inquiry for today~ how will you treasure your sweets today?

soft miracles….

Some days, the simplest tasks

seem weighty and endless:

make the bed, tuck in the sheet,

make the coffee, stir, and drink,

find the bills, pay the bills.

Some weeks, the days blur:

get on the plane, get off the plane,

get in the car, get out of the car,

sign in here, sign out there.

Then, I got your email saying:

Isn’t this all a blessing?

We get to make the bed

and tuck in the sheet.

We get to make the coffee

and stir it and drink.

I emailed you back:

What’s the difference?

You called me up and said:

“Oh my friend, if we can just

keep falling down and getting up,

it all becomes a dance.

~Mark Nepo