AChui

“How heavy my mind is,
filled with the past.
Is there enough room
for the world to penetrate?
It must go somewhere,
it cannot simply sit on the surface--

Stars gleaming over the water.
The leaves piled, waiting to be lit.

Insight, my sister said.
Now it is here.
But hard to see in the darkness.

You must find your footing
before you put your weight on it.”
― Louise Gluck, Winter Recipes from the Collective

“Lord Christ! when I think back
Upon my youth, and on my gaiety,
It tickles me to the bottom of my heart. . . .
That I have had my day in my time.
But age, alas! that poisons everything,
Has robbed me of my beauty and my vigor;
Let it go, farewell, the devil go with it!
The flour is gone, there is no more to say,
The chaff, as best I can, I must sell now;
But still I will attempt to be right merry.”
― Chaucer Geoffry Chaucer

“quote by Mahatma Gandhi that affected me deeply: “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― John Thompson, I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography

“Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love.”
― Louise Gluck, Winter Recipes from the Collective