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Dr. Knox, your writing is so valuable and precious! It’s the culmination of your life and experiences. This month’s post truly reflected that and it brings me so much joy you shared it with us ♥️ thank you!

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Thank you for your incredibly kind words, Disha! I hope you receive whatever you need from these words💜 Sending you so much love.

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Marissa,

Your writing is so full of wisdom and intelligent contemplation! Bearing witness to the deliberate suffering in the world, it’s so easy to feel powerless and slide down into grief and hopelessness and then feel guilty for taking the uplifting “medicine” of joy and hope. Your photo of the bee in mid-flight, amid the bluebonnets is amazing! When I noticed, it was a shot of joy!

I was really taken by your definition of hope, “Hope is receiving the gifts of impermanence and realizing that change (a sacred mixture of loss and gain) makes magic, creativity, and growth possible." I never even thought of the perspective of your definition of change as both loss and gain.

Your writing is so poetic. I could really visualize this line, “trusting that when the water swells and my toes can’t touch the sand, I will be carried by the waves wherever I need to go".

Now to the actual, formal poem.

there are bluebonnets

in the cemetery.

I was really left stunned after reading these six words. The ending period really hit me as the strongest expression of impermanence I’ve read and felt. These three words plus three words really sums it all up. It is so powerful and beautiful!

I almost hesitate to say this, because sometimes our flow can be disrupted by trying to live up to the judgment of others, fearing loss over gain, but I just have to say it, this is some of your best writing so far!

with gratitude,

Greg

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Thanks so much for taking the time to read my writing and express your appreciation of my words. It always means a lot to me to know how it lands for others. That poem about bluebonnets is a deeply sacred one to me, so I'm glad it struck you as powerful. :)

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