Week 6

compassion

: a deep awareness of the suffering of self and others, combined with a strong urge to help relieve it (Dr. Shelly Harrell)

“make peace with all the women you once were.

lay flowers at their feet.

offer them incense and honey and forgiveness.

honor them and give them your silence.

listen.

bless them and let them be.

for they are the temple you sit in now.

for they are the rivers of wisdom leading you toward the sea.

I have been a thousand different women.”

~poem by Emory Hall