Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

by Lisa Unger

To stand at the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment, he’d say.

“Small and hidden is the door that leads inward, and the entrance is barred by countless prejudices, mistaken assumptions, and fears.” CARL JUNG

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nature knows how to clean house. It keeps trying, doesn’t it?

Social media. Ha ha. That’s a joke—but not really. Has anything hurt us more? Has anything unstitched the fabric of our humanity more than the things that we have devised to entertain ourselves?

not seeing my husband for what he was. For relying on him for the life I thought of as my own but couldn’t sustain without him.”

Sometimes closure is a thing we find within, he’d said. It’s not necessarily given by another person. It can be something we give ourselves.