Nurture

The time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

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You made it this far. Thank you kind stranger for believing in the power of artistry. I am not a fan of marketing, being on our phone, promoting brands of any kind. Please let us throw out phones into the ocean, and return to trusting strangers, and believing that nothing is out to get you.

We all deserve healing. Kindness. Silence. Reflection. And ... See more

“Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.”

The acronym RAIN is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing mindfulness and compassion using the following four steps:

Recognize what is happening;

Allow the experience to be there, just as it is;

Investigate with interest and care;

Nurture with self-compassion.

Your prompt for the week:

Search for something in your life that has sat unused for too long. It could be an object, a space, an old journal, a dream. Write about how you could repurpose it—where it has been, what it means to you, what it could become.

There’s a name for these kinds of paths , she says, and the idea sounds familiar, but we can’t remember what they’re called. Later she looks it up and texts me. Of course. They’re called “desire paths.” The path that your heart wants to follow, heeding some kind of internal call, even if it’s not the way you think you should go.

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