Spent the afternoon Sunday with Jon Katz and Maria Wulf.  I am so appreciative of friends who push into life with as much gusto and deep inquiry as these two (and Pammie, of course).  It reminds me not to waste an opportunity, not to hold back.  I feel more vibrant for time spent with them.

There are common threads in our lives at this time.  We are both selling our homes and moving closer to what feels important, essential.  Even though both of us are moving into smaller spaces, it feels to me that we are getting bigger, because our desires and priorities are more honed, more clear.

There is a tendency I hear in friends when things are stressful to pull back, pinch in, hold on for fear of losing something irreplaceable.  It takes courage to climb out on the edge and look over, take the dive.  I love having friends who are divers, who leap every day, from their hearts into mine.