Posted on January 19, 2013 by Jennifer Wolfe
“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
– Charles de Lint
Quiet wonders…when do you feel like one of those? Or are you more the warrior in life, fighting every battle?
After this week’s announcement of the White Houses’s gun reform plan, it makes me think that we need both. Or better yet, maybe a combination of quiet wonder and warrior.
We need to listen to each other, quietly, to think beyond ourselves, and work for the children.
We need to have the strength to put aside our own agendas and pay attention to the messages in the Universe.
We need to use courage and conviction, intellect and emotion, perseverance and politeness.
We cannot stay quiet. We cannot go to war with each other.
We must find the balance. We must work for the children.
Quiet wonders. Warriors. Together, we can create gun reform.
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Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jennifer Wolfe
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
I wonder sometimes how close to the edge I can really get, where I can take risks and where I need to crawl back to the safety of the middle.
Where do I teach my children to stand, and where do they naturally gravitate towards?
So different from when I was a kid.
I wonder how to live life close to the edge without falling off. Tipping over. Or tripping into the abyss.
I wonder what would happen if I took one. step. closer.
Who would follow me?
Could I balance like this, on the railing of life, arms wide open? At my age?
I wonder if this is something only a 13-year-old boy could do. Would do.
Life has a funny way of showing us.
Right now I think I’m cruising along in the fast lane.
Straddling the center median at times.
Like a bumper car, hurtling back to the middle at one moment, then flooring it back to the edge.
I am seeing all kinds of things I never saw from the center.
Out here on the edge.
Posted on January 4, 2013 by Jennifer Wolfe
“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
Posted on January 1, 2013 by Jennifer Wolfe
Sunrise over Alpine Meadows, California
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.”
-T.S. Eliot
Happy New Year!
I dream of a year full of peace, kindness, and joy with those you love.
Looking forward to sharing our voices together in 2013,
Jennifer
Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jennifer Wolfe
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
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