Loss

In the mailbox this Monday morning

Betty White on New Year's Eve, 2021.

We will lose everything we love, including our lives — so we might as well love without fear, for to fear a certainty is wasted energy that siphons life of aliveness. – Maria Popova

(L)anguage: the speaker, and the hearer are all embedded in societal function, a culture. – Ursula LeGuinn, The Wave of the Mind, Shambhala; 1st edition (February 17, 2004).

Perhaps it is worth noting: The Watercourse Way creates, then leaves behind its own embedded-ness in each unfolding moment. I suspect the same is true for the moments in which we attend to one another.

More than the wish to be right, understand: “Understanding is love’s other name” – Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love, Parallax Press; Reprint edition (December 1, 2014)

If you haven't figured out how to “let go” you are likely trying to swim against the current.