
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either,
for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
~Louise Erdrich
sweet dreams for us…
inquiry for today~ have your own miracles…..
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn;
that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning,
and under every deep a lower deep opens.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
… and the ripeness of the apple is its downfall – Mary Oliver
so bittersweet! and it invites me into presence and savoring yet again…thanks g.f.s…