Not Knowing

“Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We’d pass out every time we saw— actually saw— a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there’d be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.”― Anthony Doerr, Four Seasons in Rome

“In the end, I learned that the practice of Not-Knowing is the very ground of altruism, because it opens us up to a much wider horizon than our preconceptions could ever afford us and can let in connection and tenderness.”― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

Friends.
Family.
Friends who are family.
Family who are friends.
Strangers and passerby’s.
What we don’t know is more than we do.
Take the time to ask and listen.
To assume nothing.
To be present, kind, a place of belonging.
Home.
Tender and soft as the flower of a petal.
Light as a cloud floating.
An open door.
Love well.

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.”― Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna