“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving the unforgivable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten. Charge it to our heads and not our hearts, as the elders in black churches have long said.”  — Anne Lamott, Hallelujah, Anyway.

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My assistant comes to lie next to me and nap. Those eyes…

Not an Iris, but pretty pretty.

Iris in the light.

Iris in the heart

The soul of the Iris.