Thank you stranger

It’s one of those days when I have to just buck-up and power through everything—we are leaving for Maine in the morning around 6am. Bran’s old homie is getting married in an itty town on the Coast called Sorento. My WhiteHouse/BlackMarket steal of a dress is still at the dry cleaners, I haven’t packed, haven’t even considered what poetry/books/writing materials are coming I am on a double shift today and its been a long minute since I sat in my room lit my candles and just went still. Good thing vipassanna is a tool that travels.

Bran checked out his uncle Jerry’s new downhome walk-in spot yesterday for country cooking and local steamed crabs. If your coming through Galena check them out: Jimmie Dicks Cluckin Chicken: 410 648 5670, open 7 days. He’s a rockfisher and married to a great cook, they know their stuff.

Anyhow I am in to reading blogs, following links to new stuff etc. I haven’t put a list of my roll up yet but will soon. One of the ones I check out periodically is Confessions of a Young Woman and last night I found this quote on there. Check her out please, because it’s my way of giving props back to someone who gave me some much yearned for light, without even knowing it, when I was deeply in need….

"Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves liked locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." - Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

Made me remember one of my very fave quotes, a perspective-keeper, how Zora Neale starts out Their Eyes We’re Watching God:

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Not only a soul-sigh quote, but too a good trick as to identifying a good read. Check out the first paragraph of the book, if you are magnetized it will keep you through a good read. Has worked for me evreytime.

So I’m off to Maine. I’ve got some open-hearted living of questions to do….