November 2, 2025
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Mary Oliver, Evidence
Sadness is inevitable in life, and one of the unfortunate aspects of sadness is that it tends to narrow our aperture. We are unable to see beyond the sadness, and we feel enclosed. The reality is that it always passes in time. But it usually doesn’t feel like it ever will, which tends to make things worse than they really are.
One way I like to work my way out is to keep some room in my heart for the unimaginable, as Mary Oliver puts it. It’s to remember the gift of this life, the dance on this planet, the company of the stars and sun. It’s to consider the possibility that there’s even more, that the best is truly yet to come.
It can be very challenging to have this mindset, yes. But it’s worth it. Remembering that most of what we have today, was actually at some point in our lives, unimaginable. And yet.