Saturday, October 15, 2022

What I Know

*Originally published on my Wordpress blog 09.21.2022

What I know is that, despite the disappointments in life, despite the loss of what used to be, despite how achingly lonely life can be sometimes , despite the  grief and sadness inherent in the human condition, despite that, I am what? Smart enough? Old enough? Observant enough? Experienced enough? Open enough? Resilient enough? I don’t know. I am enough to stay curious. I am enough to see Beauty in life. Not just the obvious physical beauty of coral pink roses and deeply veined changing color leaves and toothless baby smiles and blue ocean fringed in white but I am enough to see Beauty in emotion, in fragility, in longing, in wonder, in loss, in connection, in hope. That's enough, isn't it?



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