poet mary oliver wrote, "to live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." she also wrote, "someone i loved once gave me a box of darkness. it took me a long time to realize that this too, was a gift." here is an art offering in that regard. even though it is four years old, it represents spring and this lenten season that is upon us; those we cannot, will not, forget...but whom we learn to love in new ways through our sense of memory.
poet mary oliver wrote, "to live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." she also wrote, "someone i loved once gave me a box of darkness. it took me a long time to realize that this too, was a gift." here is an art offering in that regard. even though it is four years old, it represents spring and this lenten season that is upon us; those we cannot, will not, forget...but whom we learn to love in new ways through our sense of memory.
that is so lovely, lanette. thanks for sharing it. the letting go is really hard.
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it is hard, this living with open hands.
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