The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

~Emma Goldman

when it’s time….

inquiry for today~ always time to be held……

a kind reckoning….

Perhaps it will come

as the lightest thing

imaginable,

a gentleness

you had thought

impossible

nesting in the hollow

of your hand—

the blessed

gift of it

nothing you would

have dreamed

but for how it now

appears,

come to tell you

sometimes

what goes from us,

remains;

sometimes

what flies from us,

returns.

~Jan Richardson