Lisa Avnet Healing Arts The Joyous Body

"sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing"

From poet Galway Kinnell's poem St. Francis and the Sow

“We are an ancient sort of resilient.
Made for the falling and the rising.
Made for finding new home in one another.
Made for the burning down and rebuilding from the ashes.
Made for the holy wonder of beginning again.”                    Zoe Quiney