image from here.
My heart said to my mind on the dark silence of that beach: “I love you, I will never leave you, I will always take care of you.”
That promise floated up out of my heart and I caught it in my mouth and held it there, tasting it as I left the beach and walked back to the little shack where I was staying. I found an empty notebook, opened it up to the first page — and only then did I open my mouth and speak those words into the air, letting them free. I let those words break my silence and then I allowed my pencil to document their colossal statement onto the page:
Alison Hinks Yoga 