These strawberries are perfectly ripe. Yesterday they were the tiniest bit green and tomorrow they will start to bruise or shrivel. They will only be perfectly firm, perfectly sweet, if you eat them today.
What will you seize on to enjoy today, knowing that tomorrow may be too late?
Has anyone ever told you that you have a big mouth? Certainly there are times when it’s best if we manage to hold our tongues. But change in the world happens largely because of the people who are willing to open their mouths, and keep opening them, until the world listens to what they have to say.
When have you been proud to open your mouth and speak your truth?
What looks from one perspective like a hatchet job, a cataclysmic loss of limbs, can be regarded from another point of view as necessary pruning that will allow for new growth.
How has choosing to give something up allowed you to make room for something new?
For a penguin, a nest of rocks is a comfortable bed, and the perfect place to raise a family.
What is your ideal habitat, the place where you can both rest and grow?
“so long as you haven’t experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.”
–Goethe
How have you grown through allowing something in your life to die?
