Rivers and Bridges

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“My path is made of poetry and music, characterized by rowdiness and sunflowers, and given life by everyone I have met along the way in this process of becoming human. (When I say “everyone,” I don’t mean just us ornery two-legged beings.)”― Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

Keep walking
Crossing
Stay awake
Succumb to delight
Divine in the mundane
Extraordinary in the ordinary
Gratitude. Grace. Goodness.
Woven in this day.

“Who can open the door who does not reach for the latch?

Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself continually?”― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2