What do you want of your life?

RCC_6610, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I asked myself the question, "What do

you want of your life?" and I realized

with a start of recognition and terror,

"Exactly what  I have – but to be

commensurate, to handle it all better. 

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Gardeners of the Spirit

DSC_4931, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit,

Who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth

As without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Time Alone

RCC_0720
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Begin here.
It is raining. … I am here alone … to take up my “real” life again at last.
That is what is strange – that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened.

May Sarton, Journal of A Solitude