My dear reader,
Iβve spent my Saturday evening scouring the Internet for poems that shook me gently, and words that just clicked. The fact that all of you receiving this extra email in mid-May have helped me keep this newsletter going is proof of this communityβs love and the idea of co-creating something beautiful together, an idea I had almost shut the door on while trying to do everything alone. An exhausting phase, to say the least.
Then againβ¦
βOurs is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.β
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes