These few words are enough. If not these few words, this breath.  If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again. Until now.

- David Whyte

Hello! This month instead of a full letter I want to invite you to watch this video from poet David Whyte which I come back to very often. At one point he says: And you could say that the poet, in many ways, looks at what in many ways, looks at what I call "theconversational nature of reality." And you ask yourself: What is theconversational nature of reality? The conversational nature of reality is the fact that whatever you desire of the world -- whatever you desire of your partner in a marriage or a love relationship, whatever you desire of your children, whatever you desire of the people who work for you or with you, or your world -- will not happen exactly as you would like it to happen. But equally, whatever the world desires of us --whatever our partner, our child, our colleague, our industry, our future demands of us, will also not happen. And what actually happens is this frontier between what you think is you and what you think is not you. And this frontier of actual meeting between what we call a self and what we call the world is the only place, actually, where things are real."

I find myself in this frontier and I have a feeling so many people are also experiencing standing in this place when this happens I've learned the best thing to do is to pause and listen. Not with our ears but with our whole bodies. To not rush out of here. The road ahead might not be fully formed but, as David says, "just by actually standing in the ground of your life fully, not trying to abstract yourself into a strategic future that's actually just an escape from present heartbreak; theability to stand in the ground of your life and to look at the horizon that is pulling you -- in that moment, you are the whole journey. You are the whole conversation."

With love,
Mariana