I am in love with life. Some days, it seems as though the stresses of life will swallow me whole. But, these moments of stress always pass and then, if lucky, I am granted days like today that remind me how truly fortunate I am to live in the here and now.
"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 yourself 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
Wow that's an amazingly awesome picture Valerie !
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