silent witness

Silent Witness

                                    Dear Ian,

I read somewhere:

 "Hearing truth is like breathing air from a forgotten world."

 I think this is true, baby.

 So today I am reading through

 some of the embers of truth

 that I find in this fire; 

This hell.....

"Something Unknown

Always

Wants to be known....."

"Sometimes I feel entirely defeated.

And then I come to a place like this (in nature)

And a small courage takes hold of me,

And I feel fitter for things."

"You will notice that you only have a self

When you are in trouble."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and die with their songs still inside them."

"As you do not know the path of the wind

Or how the body is formed in a mother's womb

So you cannot understand the work of God,

The Maker of all things." 

"The story writes the life....at the same time the life is writing the story."

"I feel like a part of my soul

Has loved you

Since the beginning of everything.

Maybe we are from the same star?"

"I am Leeched by loss."

"Mom, thank you for everything you do for me.

 You are the best thing in my life.

 My life is a half-circle right now, but with you in my life it is a full circle.

 Everything you do for me makes my heart shine. 

 Love, your boy Ian." 5th grade

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know...."

"I wanted to talk to someone, but who?

It's in moments like this, 

when you need someone the most, 

that your world seems smallest."

"And Now there is just empty space

Where

A

Vibrating human used to be."

                                                    Love,

                                                                     Momma

Thanks to:

Ecclesiastes

Deepak Chopra

 H. D. Thoreau

Emily Dickenson

Pam Houston

Emery Allen

Ian Ray

Dostoyevsky

Pema Chodrin

Rachel Cohen