We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some people in it live twice as long as other people who are not in a support group. I asked David what went on in those groups and he said that people just cared about each other. Nothing big, no deep psychological stuff-people just cared about each other. The reality is that healing happens between people.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.