Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. - Rainer Maria Rilke In this world of hard edges, steep climbs, and blind turns, staying porous may seem impossible. Stamping out the soft parts of our he...

I lose sight of us at times; the way that fish can’t see the ocean; the price of lovers swimming in their love. - Mark Nepo I am a curious lover of people. I strike up random conversations in different places. I ask a lot of questions. I learn gem...

As an inlet cannot close itself to the sea that shapes it, the heart can only wear itself open. - Mark Nepo Against our will years pass. The years pass. Children mark time. Seasons mark time. Death marks time. Embracing the passage of time is as na...

We need to count by touching not by adding and subtracting. - Mark Nepo Counting by Touching We begin when we count by touching. Our capacity to begin is a gift. Fresh starts. Do overs. Clean slates. We can begin again and again and again. The onl...