Shadow

I grin and bow in gratitude for all the birthday wishes. Devorah Greenstein, old friend and comrade, texted me from an airport: “May you have a year in which the growth of your heart exceeds the shrinkage of your brain.”

May it be so. 

“Shadow does not exist by itself, it is cast, by a real physical body. To live with our shadow is to understand how human beings live at a frontier between light and dark.”

--David Whyte, Consolations.