Please,

whatever you do , just leap towards tenderness.

Leap towards connection.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply,

to let people know what they mean to us.

But caring is not synonymous with crazy.

Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable.

There is no denying that.

However, that is nothing to be ashamed of.

There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic

that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you,

when you choose to slam your heart into those who ignite something within it,

when you express.

So, express. Express, express, express.

Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world,

and be bold in who,

and how, you love.

There is courage in that.

~Bianca Sparacino

how we lean in to the depths…

inquiry for today~ there is another layer….trust…..

all in…..

As a boy, I would stare into things

a bit too long for the adults around

me. They told me I was sad and that

I should cheer up. I know now that

I was feeling depth not sadness.

Later, when I was silent too long,

those afraid of silence warned me

that being empty would make me

lonely.

I know now that I was not drown-

ing in emptiness, but gliding like a

small bird in the spaciousness

that humbles us alive.

I know now, it is the depth and

spaciousness that is our home.

~Mark Nepo