Is the life I’m living the same as the life that wants to live in me?*
Parker Palmer

Myth has always demanded action.**
Karen Armstrong.

“Next time it will be different,”
But this time wasn’t, and
next time, well, it
may be, but, really, we know what we’re doing
is putting off having to admit that
it won’t be;
The alternative is to do something
different for the sake of
things turning out differently.

We don’t know what our lives can be until
we allow wonder to break in,
Allowing ourselves to be changed
by awe, and led into new explorations, so,
Perhaps a walk in nature
(large or small), would be
somewhere
to begin –
And if you tell yourself,
“That’s not the kind of thing I do” –
Exactly!:
Encounters with images of nature
lead to the activation of dopamine networks in
the brain,
which animate … exploration and
wonder.^

*Sunil Raheja’s Dancing With Wisdom;
**Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth;
^Dacher Keltner’s Awe.
^^The doodle: After pondering this theme, I heard Jennifer Lopez’s character Kat Valdez, in Marry Me, deliver this line.