The purpose of healing is not to be forever happy; that is impossible. The purpose of healing is to be awake. And to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the very same time. ~Geneen Roth

ash from this summer’s wildfires, piling up along the edge of the poudre river

Life and death are continually bumping up against each other, standing side by side, no moment free of either one.