Don Richard Riso

And we are put on earth

a little space

that we may learn

to bear the beams of love.

William Blake

Learning to “bear the beams of love” is one of the most difficult things we can do. The problem is that we do not really understand love, its demands or tremendous power--much less how to bear it. On the contrary, we persuade ourselves that we would be supremely happy if we had even more love. We each think we would be the exception since we know what love is abo...

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