The past week has been a special week—filled with a number of points of stress and challenges and a significant amount of physical pain—but with the undertones of milestones and promised corners to turn in my line of sight. A resounding question keeps coming up for me in the most unexpected places: Who will you be on the other side of this? And the resounding answer is still: I don’t know. But it makes me think of the lines by Rainer Maria Rilke…

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

(Photo 1–message at the gas pump yesterday, a much-appreciated glimmer as I paid $4.19 per gallon for gas and Photo 2&3–the peonies I bought for a project that were not open in time to use but were waiting for me when I got home from work yesterday evening, with what I think is probably the same message as Photo 1.)

Big hugs and big love.

Live everything.