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My Candle Burns at Both Ends

Our culture invites us to experience everything! If we fail to take advantage of it all, we think we are missing out. But honestly, the web of invitations we are called to navigate is massive and

complicated. In an attempt to say yes to as much as possible,people burn the candle at both ends. I love the lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "First Fig": "My candle burns at both ends / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my It gives a lovely light!"