in the way of beauty

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it… put yourself in the way of beauty.”— Cheryl Strayed

“… poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”― Audre Lorde

To aim
Direct
Guide
Lean
Pursue
Choose
To put yourself in the way of beauty everyday
Sunrise, sunset, flowers, smiles, kindness, generosity, attention, color, laughter, connection, curiosity, joy
Poetry of life
To be made new
Fresh legs to walk out ordinary days
In extraordinary reverence, grace and gratitude

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own