Author: clfuu

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
―Mother Teresa

How will you create ripples of change today?

For a river rafter or kayaker, white water is the dangerous part of the river, the place that threatens to throw them overboard to hazards of bone-breaking rocks and even drowning. The white water, of course, is the whole reason they go out on the river to begin with.

What challenge is enlivening your life?

For most of the year blackberries are a scourge: a thorny, invasive vine that is impossible to get rid of. But for a few weeks of late summer the blackberry vine redeems itself with mouthfuls of tangy sweetness.

What in your life that you mostly find annoying periodically gives you something wonderful?

“She’s so full of herself!” we say,
as if that were an insult. As if
there were something else
that one should be full of….

I want to be packed as full of myself
as an avocado in its skin,
as a seal sunning on the beach….

Inside, skin to skin, muscled heart
to brain to bone,
let there be only you.

—Lynn Ungar

When do you feel full of yourself?

The soul is made for joy—but it is also made for grief. We live in a world that is broken as part of its very nature. The simple fact that everything changes means that loss is inevitable. We grieve the loss of what we love, so grief is as much a part of who we are as love is. Grief is inextricable from compassion.

Where do you find beauty in your soul’s grief?