“a little broken, a little new.
we are the impact and the glue.
capable more than we know
to call this fixer upper home.”
~ Sleeping at Last
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"How’s this poem for its ability to collapse all the years from childhood to middle age in a matter of fifteen short lines?"
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Me — a teenager?
If she suddenly stood here now, before me,
would I need to treat her as near and dear,
although she’s strange to me, and distant?
Shed a tear, kiss her forehead
for the simple reason
we share a birthdate?
~ Wisława Szymborska
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"We are not at home in the world because we imagine it is as we have become, full of nothing but yearning and forgetting and hoping for something so raw we can't describe it."
~ Simon Van Booy
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A son and his father, I knew
from their looks, the son with his
right hand on the handrail,
the father, left hand on the left,
and in the middle they were
holding hands
~ Ted Kooser
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"Dad has had a series of loses that you just don't get over. He lost Mom. He lost his sight. He can't walk. His hearing is going. He's afraid his mind is almost gone...I was so happy Dad had something wonderful this morning."
~ Stephen Tobolowsky
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"Our voices echo in the spray
and steam of this room where once,
long ago, he knelt at the tub’s edge
to pour cups of bathwater over my head."
How many science classes
are required to convince a believer
the sun never rises or sets,
that thunderstorms don't have personalities?
"There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."
~ Maurice Sendak
Read More"The ego wishes comfort, security, satiety; the soul demands meaning, struggle, becoming. The contention of these two voices sometimes tears us apart. Ordinary ego consciousness is crucified by these polarities. Again, the paradox emerges that in our suffering, in our symptoms, are profound clues as to the meaning of the struggle, yet the path of healing is very difficult for the apprehensive ego to accept, for the ego will be asked to be open to something larger than itself."
~ James Hollis, from Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
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