Every one of us is called upon,
probably many times,
to start a new life.
A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...
And onward full tilt we go,
pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute,
driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore.
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another -
that is surely the basic instinct...
Crying out: High tide!
Time to move out into the glorious debris.
Time to take this life for what it is.
-Barbara Kingsoliver, FROM HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON
