Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone
won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to
love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to
risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you
are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself
sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. -
Louise Erdrich
Three Muses - apples
Hugs,
Karla
