Mirroring

Ocean shore, love, photo
Photo by Elizabeth
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether 
we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of 
mirroring and magnifying each other's light. 
Gentle work. 
Steadfast work. 
Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, 
we are that person. 

                                               James Baldwin

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By Elizabeth Oakley Weaver

Even as a kid I've said it doesn't matter if I live to be 150: this life will be the blink of an eye. Poet, author, visual artist, photographer, educator and lover of life (though still working on the hard parts like Covid, violence, inequity), I'm completing a memoir inspired by and largely about dogs and people.

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