Reclining on my sofa, gazing out my window, my thoughts are adrift on the breeze, that gently sways through the nodding flowers, and rustling leaves.

and I pondered this curiously crazy lifeand the things I failed to grasp as a girlbut thought I understood nowas a softer , wiser womanI thought about life and death...I thought about tonight's dinner menu too...

A good way to ascertain what matters to you is to imagine the following: You wake up in the morning to the realisation that you have but a day to live. How would you want to spend that day? Who would you want to spend that time with?

We cannot give to others what is lacking within us