“Like the rest of the
natural world, human beings go through seasons. At one point, we are in the
full bloom of summer, harvesting, committed, in abundance. Then, naturally,
there is an autumnal time of falling away, disillusionment, stagnation, a
shedding of what has been used up. Then must come the fallowness and dormancy
of winter, death, rest. Eventually…there is a great melting into muck and mud,
which, if one can persevere, opens naturally into an abundant yellow-green time,
when everything is possible and horizons open. Consider your own passion for a
moment. Is it hiding under the softest fall of snow, or going through a raw
shedding? And is your sense of purpose trembling with spring green or flaming
in full harvest?”
—Dawna Markova,
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
