The Exquisite Risk

Mark nipo, the poet i just read from, has a way of describing this journey to intimacy. He calls it the exquisite risk. We are talking about how to wean ourselves with the control strategies and be willing to be vulnerable. Read recently a something written by madeline langel an, not pronouncing her name right, but the author of wrinkle and tyme. She writes that unless i'm willing to open myself up to risk and to being hurt, then i'm closing myself off to love and friendship. If i'm free to fail, if i'm not free to risk, take risks, and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to risk,