Change is like that: you are no longer where you were;
you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly. [Lionel
Shriver, Checker
and the Derailleurs]
It is a precarious ledge I find myself on these past weeks.
Getting narrower and then suddenly widening, and I feel like I am Right Here
and it is good, “well with my soul” as Jay so often writes…
I notice that it isn’t easy for some people to see me Here,
or mayBE to accept it. I can fall into old habits in a blink, but fighting
someone has NEVER worked for me…
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into
the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with
the weight of me all here. [Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are]
I’ve been feeling like this. Things feel slowed down a LOT
and like frame-by-frame instead of flowing one into the other, a “moving”
picture. I lost my patience yesterday. I discovered an end in myself and it
came up so suddenly, without giving me any time at all to make it BEhave.
Here is an unfenced existance [Philip
Larkin]
What an apt description. Here is a field, wide open and
free.
I love you, Currie
3 comments:
Currie.. these thoughts, these works of art... are ALL so nourishing to one's spirit. You too, are a gift to this planet. You are. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself here & giving us a glimpse into that wonderful heart & mind of yours. xx
Thoughtful post. Sounds like a bit of stress but that it passed. I love that--well with my soul! Who's Jay? :)
Your work this week is quite the opposite of mine...I think I need some of your energy...even if it may have come from stress. Very dynamic work!
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