I owe you one ...

Last week I did not post a Poetry Thursday -- and it is already WEDNESDAY -- how does that happen?

In any case, my favorite blogger/ecourse giver/former life coach posted this today and I swiped it. Hope you like it, I did!

And I have read almost everything Erdrich has written ... sometimes I love her and sometimes I hate her, but I can't put her damn books down once I get my hands on them.

“Life will break you. 

Nobody can protect you from that, 

and living alone won’t either, 

for solitude will also 

break you with its yearning. 

You have to love. 

You have to feel. 

It is the reason 

you are here on earth. 

You are here to risk 

your heart. 

You are here to be 

swallowed up. 

And when it happens 

that you are broken, 

or betrayed, 

or left, or hurt, 

or death brushes near, 

let yourself sit 

by an apple tree and 

listen to the apples falling 

all around you in heaps, 

wasting their sweetness. 

Tell yourself 

you tasted 

as many 

as you could.” 

~Louise Erdrich

swiped from friend's fb