Patience

RIC_8970-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.




     The root of the Italian word for patience, pazienza, comes
     from pax or pacem, Latin for peace. Within patience, there
     is peace. So simple, yet so startling.


      W. S. Merwin, , "Pazienza," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, Selected and
      Introduced by Judith Valentine and Charles Reynard