Two breaths

Reading from Tuesday April 2, 2013 yoga class

I am a "book junkie."  I LOVE books.  After 20yrs of working at the public library and being the cataloger... it is in my blood.  I found another one of Mark Nepo's book and my reading is from the book Seven Thousand Ways to Listen.  The following is what I first opened the book to:

"At a gathering in San Francisco, I met Marco, a careful and patient photographer from Santa Clara.  When asked what surprised him during the last year, his voice began to quiver.  He'd witnessed two breaths that had changed his life.  His daughter's first breath.  Then his mother's last breath.  As his daughter inhaled the world, it seemed to awaken her soul on Earth.  As his mother exhaled her years, it seemed to free her soul of the world.  These two breaths jarred Marco to live more openly and honestly.  He took these two breaths into his own daily breathing and quickly saw their common presence in everyone's breathing.  Is it possible that, with each inhalation, we take in the world and awaken our soul?  And with each exhalation, do we free ourselves of the world, which inevitably entangles us?  Is this how we fill up and empty a hundred times a day, always seeking the gift of the two breaths?  Perhaps this is the work of being."