every artist dips his brush

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

listening...

To listen is to lean in,

softly,

with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

- Mark Nepo

this little rose...

Nobody knows this little Rose

It might a pilgrim be

Did I not take it from the ways

And lift it up to thee.

Only a bee will miss it

Only a butterfly,

Hastening from far journey

On its breast to lie

Only a bird will wonder

Only a breeze will sigh

Ah Little Rose - how easy

For such as thee to die!

Emily Dickinson