Paradox…more

Lately this is all I sit with.
I keep seeing:

How I thought I knew, how I still think sometimes, I know this or that and then how little I know, and how impossible it is to know.
How grand and unfathomable the journey yet how one little moment one gentle touch can shift every thing.
What great things we can do and how little or none is within our control.
How sad and beautiful, how heart-breaking and amazing and how small and grand life is.
How good and bad, how right and wrong, how strange and wholesome I can be.
How powerful and vulnerable and helpless and strong I am.
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Wilder Side of Me

somewhere in the wilder side of me
is a land yet to be discovered

dancing to carnival songs
and indigenous drums
sweetly held in Mother Nature’s arms
who keeps singing
a lullaby
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Now

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

from The Talmud