All the Best Things in Life

All the best things in life come packaged in a ribbon of risk. You untie the gift, you asume the risk, and equally, the joy.

Parenthood is like that. Marriage is like that. Friendship is like that.

In order to experience life in the full sense, you expose yourself to a bottomless pit of vulnerability. That is the essence of love.

- Kristin Armstrong


+++++

my dear friends, may you all receive your packages of Life with many ribbons of risks and may you all never keep those gifts shelved away but open them bravely - ripping at those ribbons, stashing them away or keeping them in your privte collection - but tear at them always. may you all fall into many pits, as many as God wills, and as many as will make us all grow.