Regrets

Down along the fence line, the back forty of your life,
there's a pile of stones, your regrets. If you don't go down
there to visit them often, you'll end up thinking either that
they're not there at all, rarely true, or that they make a pile
a mile high, rarely true too. So, here it is, they're always
there and the pile is rarely as high as you think it is.
When the ending of days comes into view, that's

a good time to visit that little altar. So here's an idea.

Don't add another stone to the pile with the way you are

with the ending of days. Just remember. Then climb

that little hill, picking up one stone and putting it back

in place, remembering as you go, it's not all bad.

When you get to the top, look around, because that's

the vast field of your life, with everything it was,

now visible and lucid and you can only really see it

from up there. And that's the big story.

Stephen Jenkinson