The Three Things We Learn in Living and Loving Fully

How we relate to impermanence and loss directly affects our capacity to love. Mary oliver's poem in blackwater woodsit is a poem i've loved for a very long time. Everything i have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this, the fires and the black river of loss,. whose other side is salva, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world, you must be able to do three things, to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones, knowing your own life depends on it, when the time comes to let it go, toLet it go.