Beginning

RC1_4533, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Once we’ve thrown off our habitual

   paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only 

   here that the new and the good begins.

    

    Leo Tolstoy

Prayer

_DSC6813, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows:

wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.

Let me be a good animal today.

Let me dance in the waves of my private tide,
the habits of survival and love.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

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