Daily Signet

Life is not about perfecting your personality—it’s about, well, life. It’s not about saving anything or anyone; it’s about being alive. It’s not about being comfortable, not on any level—physically, spiritually, emotionally—for often, we are most alive when least comfortable. The point is not to identify the good or the bad, the right or the wrong, the highly or the lowly evolved; the point is to embark—each moment choosing: “Oh either be dead, or not be dead.” Each moment seeking out sources of vitality, discerning the alive from “the living but already gone.” 

To answer the call to embark involves more than getting on a boat or a plane. You can travel a long way by any number of means of transport and yet, never really embark. No one embarks without crossing a threshold and no one crosses a threshold burdened with baggage.                       

Teri Martin

On This Day…

Shinto day of thanks for water

St. Luke, physician, evangelist and martyr, 1C

Ntozake Shange born in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, died 2018: playwright and author: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf and Spell No. 7
Quotes: “When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.” “I found god in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” “Where there is woman, there is magic.”