Writing from the Heart, an Amherst Writers and Artists Group Facilitated by William Caldwell 13 - 2017 To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson ~I will not fear you my fear, because you bring me the gift of light which ever surrounds your shadow. And when I embrace my light, it devours my shadow. ~I praise you love, raise you up to the light that embraces the universe, with the warmth and joy of its breath; I praise you because you are enough. As your heart gets bigger on the inside, the world gets bigger on the outside. If the dead were alive only in this world, you would forget them, looks like, as soon as they die. But you remember them because they were always living in the other, bigger world while they lived in this little one, and this one and the other one are the same....