Furry Friday: Happy Easter!

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Spring is an awesome time of year to think about relationships. Mark Nepo, an inspiring poet and philosopher, wrote a piece that I found inspiring and relates not only to our relationships with our families but with all living things.   Enjoy!

“There’s a story about a woman who on her way to Chimayo saw two Spanish farmers repositioning stones in a riverbed to redirect the flow; she felt compelled to help. She had the feeling that this had been done for centuries—their mothers and fathers, their grandmothers and grandfathers, each in their own time and way, picking up the same stones pushed about by the storm or drought and putting them back so the water can continue.

It seems this is the never-ending work of relationship, each of us in our own time and way moving the stones between us, repositioning the heavy things that get in the way, so the life of feeling can continue.

“The weather of simply living jams things up, and we, like every generation before us, must roll up our pants and sleeves, step into the river, and unclog the flow. Of course, we need to ask, What are the stones pushed about between us? What are the heavy things that keep getting in the way?

“No doubt, they are infinite and particular, but often, they are made up of habits of not: not seeing, not hearing, not feeling, not being present,not risking the truth, not risking the hearts need to live out in the open.

“That we close off, jam up, spill over, and dry up are all part of being human in gravity of time. That we feel compelled to stop and help even strangers move the heavy thing out of the way is an impulse known as love.”                                                                                                              —Mark Nepo 

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Wishing you all a very Happy Easter! 

Pam




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