The broken door lets in the light. The broken heart lets in the world.

To love by admitting our connection to everything is how we stay well.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.