This lovely poem, passed on to me by my Spanish teacher, is from the Purepecha people of Michoaca’n, Mexico. It was written in the 1500s but strikes me as relevant today, in this unexpected situation in which we find ourselves, trying to figure out how we want to live.
In life you neither win nor lose,
nor does it fail
is not successful.
In life you learn,
it grows,
is discovered;
is written,
is deleted and
is rewritten again;
is spun,
frays and
is spun again.
The day I understood
that the only thing I’m going to take
is what I live, I started to
Live what I want to take.
STAY WELL
*Photo taken by me, October 2016.
