Let the Leaf Fall
Let the Leaf Fall When this living breaks your heart, steals your plans, when you miss the holy of here, thinking thinking thinking something brighter is over there, when there is no denying how precious, how precarious this aliveness is, let yourself break again and again, let the cool, almost-autumn breeze blow all the way in. Let the fading light, the falling leaf, show you how short it is, this life. How feather-fine the line. And then blow infinite kisses of kindness to every dying-living thing, yourself included. Always yourself included. Whoever you think you are does not even come close. You are big enough to hold every break, every ache, every dark cloud, every twinkling star too. Let the leaf fall. watch now— watch how life catches you.