Bearing Leaves and Glossy Fruit

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose 
to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more 
accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.  
I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the
next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova