Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together … - Susan Griffin

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Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.

Susan Griffin

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Connected, Desire, Men, Rich, Together

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We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

Caterpillars, Flower, Girl, Peach, Pearl, Spring

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

Change, Circumstances, Perspective, Serious, Startling

Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.

Borrow, Children, Humble, Motherhood, Office, Welfare

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Days, Meditation, Museums, Painting, Woman

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Friendship, Life, Traces