To Leave the World - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To leave the world a bit better
whether by healthy child
a garden patch
or redeemed social condition;
to know even one life
has breathed easier because you live-
that is to have succeeded
The Way In - Linda Hogan
Sometimes the way to milk and honey is through the body. Sometimes the way in is a song. But there are three ways in the world: dangerous, wounding and beauty. To enter stone, be water. To rise through the hard earth, be plant, desiring sunlight, believing in water. To enter fire, be dry. To enter life, be food.
