Day 122d: Like a meteor to Love … (August 29, 2019)
“Traveling the dusty highways in the glaring midday, when the light was at its most piercing and the shadows their most cowardly, I look out along the veering dirt tracks that joined the main road at intervals; each of them undulating away gently into the distance; slow streams of destination more than wide enough to be walked in twos and threes and fours, through the haze, talking easily with one another, making our way back from wherever lay beyond. And as I passed them all, I longed to take every one of their turnings, longed to step out along each & every track – to see what lay over each of their horizons and to share in the stories of those that returned from the same. And yet my trajectory was that of a meteor and my purpose was just as single-minded. I was walking boldly, no doubt, shedding millions of tiny sparks of possibility with every passing second, each with the capacity to ignite a flash of kindness or beauty, and yet nearly all of which quickly burned up and vanished as they were left behind in favor of the one blazing trail I had chosen instead. The fire that moved me forward was the Mission to spread loving kindness. It was the flame that lit my way and it was the flame that fueled my living.” ~ via Luke F.D. Marsden
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