Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

When love beckons to you, follow him
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind
lays waste to the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he
is for your growth so he is for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest
branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their
clinging to the earth.

From The Prophet by Kahil Gibran

oprah.com/relationships/Marital-Therapist-HarvilleHendrix-Tells-the-Simple-Truth-About-Love/2

psychpage.com/family/library/gottman.html

By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she's wrong.

a good one sent as a forward

Surf Lessons continue with new board

Hey - just got a new board to teach on! It is a 9 ft soft surfboard and lots of fun-I rode it today! Getting ready to do a class for abused children and teens.

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that something deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."e.e. cummings