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It’s Never Too Early
Religion says you’re only right if you believe what it believes,
Spirit says you’re right when you come from a place of love. Anything that divides us is not from the Spirit.
— Wayne William Snellgrove, Saulteaux Cree
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A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. A seat on the subway. And something bad will have happened: You will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something at which you badly wanted to succeed. And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for some core to sustain you.
And if you have been perfect all your life and have managed to meet all the expectations of your family, your friends, your community, your society, chances are excellent that there will be a black hole where that core ought to be. I don’t want anyone I know to take that terrible chance.
And the only way to avoid it is to listen to that small voice inside you that tells you to make mischief, to have fun, to be contrarian, to go another way. George Eliot wrote, ‘It is never too late to be what you might have been.’ It is never too early, either.
— Anna Quindlen
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Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs, now, are about one thing…
