Rise Strong

Our job is not to deny the story, 

but to defy the ending

—to rise strong, 

recognize our story, 

and rumble with the truth 

until we get to a place 

where we think, Yes. 

This is what happened. 

And I will choose how the story ends.

–- Brené Brown

Some Say You're Lucky

Some say you're lucky
If nothing shatters it.

But then you wouldn't
Understand poems or songs.
You'd never know
Beauty comes from loss.

It's deep inside every person:
A tear tinier
Than a pearl or thorn.

It's one of the places
Where the beloved is born.

--Gregory Orr

A Spiritual Journey

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, 

no matter how long, 

but only by a spiritual journey, 

a journey of one inch, 

very arduous and humbling and joyful, 

by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, 

and learn to be at home.

~ Wendell Berry