“I think most people for most of history have lived despite global circumstances, working and celebrating and loving even though horrible things are happening. This doesn’t mean we do nothing. There are days and days and months and years when needful work means doing the dishes, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, kissing the beloved, and welcoming the stranger.” –Bethany Lee, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Are you finding your way to the good work that’s needed today?

When the old monk was almost done with his body

Already done with his watch

You run out of time before the end, it seems

Before you run out the time

Done with feet

Done with hands

He will not again walk from this place

Or make

To be caught in now

So completely

Looks like loss

Does it feel like loss to him?

Does it feel like a gift?

Like the shape of being held?

–Bethany Lee, from “The Breath Between” in The Breath Between