Live Wide Open
A dear friend stopped by today with a bag of stones. She hand paints stones as her creative gift and brought me a bunch with the word "peace" on them. I will be spontaneously hand delivering them around the world, along with prayer flags created by my artist friend in Maine. She collects words of blessing from people around the country and world, and weaves them into flags. How blessed am I to have such a loving, generous and risky! community. When my friend came by, she left this poem with me..life wide open. Semester at Sea, world, here we come....
Living Wide Open
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid
more accessible,
to loosen my heart until it
becomes a wing, a torch,
a promise.
I choose to risk my significance, to live so that
that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom
goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova
Oh...Happy, Blessed Trails to you and your family! We'll all be here with open arms. Yes yes yes to your entry!!
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