Life's Treasures

"However much I've lost, what remains to me is that I can still speak to name the things I love.  I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things.   The treasures I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own; the curve of a 5 yr. old's forehead in profile, and the vulnerable expectation in the hand that reaches for mine as we cross the street.   The wake up call  of birds in the forest.   The intensity of a sunset in the last 15 minutes before the end of the day.   In my darkest times I have to walk, sometimes alone, in some green place; for me it's the need to stare at moving water until my mind comes to rest on nothing at all."  Barbara Kingsolver