The exercise seemed cathartic, meant to pull something far deeper than dreams from the participants. Create a bucket list. Easy enough I suppose, although not as easy as it might be to those with less distance left of the road.
But there was nothing I could think of, nothing worthy of such a contract with the universe. Surely, in putting words to paper, there becomes an invisible thread (a map) connecting now to the future, this to another.
There was nothing I needed to do.
Subsequent discussions debated the matter – a half empty bucket or a bucket half full.
Mine, admittedly, is a bucket overflowing – not big enough to hold what I already have, what I have already known. Even of my sorrows, I would not sacrifice a one for the preceding joy, negating a moment of anguish, loss or indecision.
It is the nothing (everything) variable of love. To love; to be loved. What else could there be? If I climbed Everest, what value those words on stone? Would that be the thing for which I would linger? A memory of sorts that speaks more to my endurance than to my endearing.
Nothing.
Nothing more than to love – to be loved. To empty the bucket time and again until there is no time….
Leaving behind only a bucket never (ever) quite emptied.
. . .
“To love; to be loved. What else could there be?” ~ truer words have never been spoken
….the first gift and the last……. Thank you ❤
Exquisite. Wow.
And even then, the next life-circle already awaits …
Perpetuated by all we keep in the giving away ❤
To the point! 🙂
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Whatever there is that we are dreaming, let us wake with the remembering. Thank you!
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Thank you, my friend………… Always with love.
Amazing. Your Blog is wonderful. I live this piece too
You are far too kind, and I am way more than humbled.