The first step to wisdom is realizi | by Deborah Barchi | Medium

I’m not a teacher or a healer. I only have a story to share. There are so many things I don’t understand, and the more I try to understand, the less I know. It only becomes more mysterious and unexplainable.

Healing in the Jungle

Lynne Nardizzi

1 min readMar 5, 2020

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The first step to wisdom is realizing this.

Deborah Barchi

Written by Deborah Barchi

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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