Late Entry ... Poetry Thursday

Life shrinks 

or 

expands 

in proportion 

to one's courage. 

~Anais Nin 

Bosque Trail, June 2013

This quote was one of the first ones that came across on the daily affirmations on loss that I signed up for after my sister died.  I can't always open the emails.  Thirty or so are sitting in my email right now, unopened.  But this one begins to give me courage to open them ... to begin to deal with the grief that lies just behind my eyes every moment of every day.