I don't want to live a small life. Open your eyes ... open your life, open your hands. - Mary Oliver

Let the world
have its way with you,
luminous as it is with mystery
and pain — graced as it is
with the ordinary.

If you are in the garden, I will dress myself in leaves. If you are in the sea I will slide into that smooth blue nest, I will talk fish, I will adore salt. But if you are sad, I will not dress myself in desolation. I will present myself with all the laughters I can muster. And if you are angry I will come, calm and steady, with some small and easy story.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.