You Better Be Lightning

I want to know

if you are prepared to live in a world

with its harsh need

to change you. If you can look back

with firm eyes

saying this is where I stand.

— David Whyte, 'Self-Portrait' [from Fire in the Earth]

"You might not control the circumstances that life hands you, but you can control the energy and enthusiasm that you bring to those situations."

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."-John Irving