Author: clfuu

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
―Jennifer Donnelly

When have you broken a promise in order to keep yourself whole?

Imagine you are standing under the dome of an umbrella, under the dome of a building, under the dome of the sky. Perhaps you are sheltered in more ways than you had imagined.

What shelters you in ways that you tend to forget?

There are billions of people in this world whom we will never meet. Our choices and our actions affect a surprising number of them.

What covenant do you feel that you hold with a world full of strangers?

“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.”
–Adrienne Rich

What truth about yourself have you learned in conversation with someone else?

From on high these mountains are shrouded in a mysterious beauty—which may or may not be any more mysterious or beautiful than what you would see if you were actually standing on the mountainside.

How has your perspective on something important changed because of distance in time or space?