In This Together…

Poet David Whyte lives a few mile away from us on Whidbey Island. I treasure his poems and his insight. This excerpt of his about gratitude really spoke to me and seems to be helpful as Bob and I anticipate meeting hundreds of people on our Walk:

“Gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things must come together and live together and mesh together and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air, that the underlying gift of life and incarnation as a living, participating human being is a privilege; that we are miraculously, part of something, rather than nothing. Even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the color blue, the green of the fields, the freshness of a cold wind, or the tawny hue of a winter landscape….”