I Wiil Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

In I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, this powerful writer expands on the ideas that inspired the poem for the first time. "I'm not sure I know exactly what passion is," writes the author, " but I do know what it does for us. I know that it breaks us open until there is no partition between our bodies and the body of the world. I know it acts on us until something takes root inside and insists on growing. I usually forget that it begins as a reaching down into the dark as well as up and out toward the light.