The art of living · the storm
Storms
Some days the sky cracks open. The hard thing arrives — sudden, loud, sure of itself — and leaves a silence heavier than the noise it made. Here we don’t look away. We name them plainly, because even the breaking is part of the becoming.
Latest Storms
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Keep all you see!
As if looks were everything, she walked in sure that what eyes see where enough. Only they weren’t and everything depends on where you look in places where air seems hopeless. So she looked for spaces full of possibilities, she looked for where music flowed like branches in the wind. She looked for invisible places where…
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Keep dancing with life.
I am learning that this life is what you make out of it. Good or bad. We only have one life. So dance. That’s all!
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Keep these lessons!
We surrender to words, not worlds, not when any leaf can be shaken, not when light remains light no matter what it shines on.
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Keep beginning again!
There is something sweet about beginning again, like a mysterious birth whose purpose is to reveal. The way things emerge in the beginning, ideas come into being, as if they have always been there, how they leap from your soul too and become their own is the reason why I would always begin again. Always…
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Keep these words!
I am learning that language is supposed to move us to a place where meaning may lie. Its force, felicity, its reach is toward the unspeakable. Word-work is sublime. It’s generative, making meaning that secure our differences the way in which we are like no other life. Words by Toni Morrison.
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Keep the gaze of hawks!
Two subtle visitors, red tail hawks, arrived at my home today. They were more than the gaze that held them tightly, more than every day birds that flew lightly. They moved as I moved, flying then perching next to each other on a tree. They looked content and stared only at the things that greeted their…
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Keep moments that let your heart skip a beat!
There are moments where your heart skips a bit, you stay motionless, only moving as reality returns. In those moments, I hope something sweet and kind, crosses your mind. Today was full of those moments, full of gratitude too that all that I can say is to keep moments that let your heart skip a…
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Keep what makes you smile!
When you meet a man walking bare feet with his cane and his parrot (who also spread their wings for me), you smile knowing this life will be alright…It will.
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Keep the people you see!
I went to a market and spoke to people. All sorts of people. All of them had one thing in common, a desire to be with people, to connect, to create, to even celebrate that which makes us whole. I went to a market and spoke to people but truly people spoke to my soul.
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Keep your parenting!
The real work of motherhood begins when the day you never dreamed off arrives. For me, it was this week. I have been holding on to my daughter being my first baby for so long that I secretly refused to see her as the teenager she was becoming. I have been in denial since I…