Reflect

None of us wants to arrive at the end of a year or a decade or a life, wondering if somehow we’ve not fully lived or not fully been ourselves. This of course doesn’t mean a life without disappointment and grief, but it does describe a life in which we have the presence, confidence, and courage to offer our unique response to the world. In her poem “When Death Comes,” Mary Oliver writes, “When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”