“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” --Mary Oliver

This seemed like a good New Year's prompt: Make a bucket list of things you want to do before you die. When you’re done, go back and rank them in order of importance.

“A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, ‘I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.’ “The grandson asked him, ‘Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?’ “The grandfather answered: ‘The one I feed.’” ~Native American Story

Tell me about the wolf you feed.

“We hope for a linear method or writing. Do A, B, C, and voilá—your memoir is before you, sprung like a cake from a pan. But look at your life: A often doesn’t lead to B or C. And that’s what makes it compelling—how things worked out in the wrong places or were a disaster when they were supposed to bring happiness. Even if you managed to narrow your life to one thin line: born, went to school, worked a job from nine to five, saved your money, ate a single lamb chop and baked potato on Saturday night, there were still dreams and nightmares, the gaping hole of death at the end, the sudden unmistakable crush on the woman with the pale eyes who worked the register at the employee cafeteria.” --Natalie Goldberg, [Continue Reading]

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes." --Etty Hillesum

Tell me about the most important moment in your day, a moment that really mattered.