When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
Fighting dragons is my holy joy.
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.