Love, Actually
02/13/2014
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let youself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
--- Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
Wise, wise words. While life can be painful we must realize without the hurt we would not know joy.
Posted by: margene | 02/13/2014 at 08:20 AM
Sigh. It's easier to say think it than to live through it but YES.
Posted by: Carole | 02/13/2014 at 08:22 AM
beautiful words... and I love those bowls, too!
Posted by: Mary | 02/13/2014 at 09:01 AM
Thank YOU for that!
Posted by: Patty | 02/13/2014 at 09:17 AM
Yes, yes and yes! These words are amazing!
Posted by: Jo | 02/13/2014 at 11:29 AM
Oh, that is lovely. So perfect.
Posted by: Vicki | 02/13/2014 at 11:36 AM
xoxo
Posted by: Joan | 02/13/2014 at 03:29 PM
I love Louise Erdrich. I'm reading Antelope Wife right now.
Posted by: Marilyn | 02/14/2014 at 09:03 AM
Thanks for these words - bittersweet but true - like love.
Posted by: Pam | 02/16/2014 at 04:13 PM