Here’s a poem from Muriel Rukeyser, an excerpt from Elegy in Joy. I love the stanza ~

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.
Not all things are blest, but the
seeds of all things are blest.
The blessing is in the seed.

It's so easy to forget that beginnings are full of promise, and that sometimes endings are beginnings...
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