What Are You Doing with Your One Life?

I was at the Adler Academy of Minnesota’s Annual Conference last week on grief and we wrote a haiku during the training which we then shared in a small group. It made me remember how powerful poetry can be and how fleeting our existence is. So, I’m going to drop this right here from parenting expert, L.R. Knost:

Just One

You can hate it.

You can love it.

You can hide from it.

You can embrace it.

You can analyze it.

You can idealize it.

You can romanticize it.

You can rage at it.

But you can’t ignore it.

It is in your bones.

It is in your lungs.

It fires through your brain.

It is wrapped around you

as intimately as your skin.

It flows through your veins.

It is woven into your DNA.

It is life.

It is life.

It is life.

One life.

Your life.

What will you do with it, love?

What will you do with it?

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