So glad to meet you today and excited to check out your new collection!

Thanks for posting this!🌻

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

"Infinite Spirit of Life, we ask thy blessing on these, thy messengers of fellowship and love..."-Norbert Fabian Capek

Borage blooms along the path
camouflaged by blue skies,
abiding planes plucking
stars from one to another time,

signs, amidst the darkness
to take courage where we find
it along the edges, plucking
it up to press into each other's minds.

PMMLevitt

Messengers of Fellowship and Love

Norbert found the blossom
within the walls of Dachau,
his fingers, plucking,
a reed thin stem reaching out.

Inside: the strongest protest.
A soft petal passed, allied
their fingers, plucking
beauty from the bleak tide.

This poem is a flower for you.

Norbert Fabian Capek was a Unitarian minister tortured and killed at Dachau. He started the Unitarian Universalist tradition of the flower communion where flowers are exchanged as a symbol of what we offer to each other in community and fellowship. He continued this practice while at Dachau.

Do what is in your control to add grains of love, peace, justice, kindness.

In graduate school, I wrote an essay on choice which stuck with me. What I learned is that no matter how constrained our choices, we always have them. We have the choice to love, to live from our integrity, to seek connection, to heal. Every action is a grain of sand on the scales of justice.

We live in illusion because the nervous system craves safety and so we seek control to support it and avoid feelings of helplessness. Sometimes this means we adapt to survive what we may not be able to control.