<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">The Possible</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Starting here, I want to remember</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the spaciousness that emerges in me</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when my heart knows itself as an expression</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of the one great heart. In those moments,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when the </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">I</em><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> slips away and the </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">we</em><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is all,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when love is unbound from the walls</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of my chest and expands across mountains</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and deserts and oceans and returns </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">with the peaks and tide in each breath, </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">then the rightest parts of my being unclench</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">themselves, as if all the bars of the inner prison</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">dissolve and what’s left is freedom</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to love beyond judgment, beyond should </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and should not, beyond how my one small heart</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is capable of loving. I remember the first time</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I felt love carry me through a moment</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I knew I could not meet alone. Since that time,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am learning to trust that the heart of all hearts </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">can rise up in any moment to illumine the path </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I do not yet see is possible. Since that time, </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am still surprised but not surprised when</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the spaciousness opens me again </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to loving what feels impossible to love.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer</span></div></body></html>