everything fades.

Stars

The dance in a step

The sparks between people

everything fades.

You can't avoid it.

So it's not a question of whether or not it fades.

Because it will.

What matters is how brightly it burned at it's peak.

That's what defines us.

You can measure you're success by the brightness of your climax.

holding in.

never speaking your mind.

fearing chances and risk.

These are dimming qualities.

Defy them.

Burn bright.

A little love from William Stafford...

"The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.”

“. . . You were aimed from birth:you will never be alone. Rainwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down.”

“I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.”

"So, the world happens twice, once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.”

“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”

"“Next time what I'd do is look atthe earth before saying anything. I'd stop just before going into a house and be an emperor for a minute and listen better to the wind or to the air being still.”

“When I dream at night, they save a place for me,no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.”

"when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready."”

“The world speaks everything to us.It is our only friend.”

They say you never forget your first love. They may have something right. Stafford still claims some of my memories.