He followed them to the classroom,
where he would not heal them
or even console them
but only close the door,
shut out the world
in which
they found themselves wanting,
not to help them escape it
but to give them a chance
to understand
all it meant to have limits,
to need limits,
to choose our limits,
to be defined by those limits,
and to learn to love them.
—Michael Downing, Still in Love
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| Ready to Try This out for One Time at Least 4 x 5" greeting card; acrylic, ink, and oil pastel on canvas paper abstract 2019 |
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4 comments:
"...a chance
to understand
all it meant to have limits,
to need limits,
to choose our limits,
to be defined by those limits,
and to learn to love them."
Holy cow. Are you channeling my very life here??????? Love.
Whose afraid of that big black bug?
That line jumped right out and did jumping jacks in front of me, Jen. Glad it resonated with you, too. Loving limits can be so powerful.
[I wrote a reply earlier but evidently it didn't publish when I (thought I) I clicked on Publish. Speaking of limits!]
That beetle just had to have its way in this piece!
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