Beautifully thought out and written Maya, thank you, this Wendell Berry poem comes to mind. But of course one must have freedom for this experience to be possible....♥️
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
Wonderment is the push to the call of curiosity, it is what brings us closer to discovery and its no wonder that wondering makes us go beyond what is thought possible.
Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.
These are so good, especially the Rigby words. Thank you Maya, for meeting us right here in our sadness and desperation… and fear of what our lives and our children’s lives may be. We might be afraid but there are so many of us!!! Smart good kind humans who will not be trampled, we get up and see the sky and see each other; there has to be an answer to this mess, we SHALL OVERCOME ❣️❣️
Beautifully thought out and written Maya, thank you, this Wendell Berry poem comes to mind. But of course one must have freedom for this experience to be possible....♥️
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
A favorite!
This ties in with CURIOSITY -
CURIOSITY
I was curious –
Why is the sky blue?
I was curious –
Why am I me and you you?
I was curious –
about everything I could do.
Now my aged curiosity slumbers
to be awakened by the trivial and the trite.
I want to be stirred
by some revealing exploration
to lead me from the loneliness of the night.
© 2022 Larry Kilham
Oh this is beauty...
Reminds me of the Pieper quote I shared on Twitter just the other day! https://x.com/MG_Mangan0/status/1712188446523945111?s=20
Rachel Carson and Barry Lopez trying to anchor us back to nature and the land.
And the opening, now with these.
"to affirm and to respect" I like.
Thank you.❤️
Delightful
💗
Wonderment is the push to the call of curiosity, it is what brings us closer to discovery and its no wonder that wondering makes us go beyond what is thought possible.
Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.
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Let miracles replace all grievances.
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(From “A Course in Miracles”, Lesson 78)
These are so good, especially the Rigby words. Thank you Maya, for meeting us right here in our sadness and desperation… and fear of what our lives and our children’s lives may be. We might be afraid but there are so many of us!!! Smart good kind humans who will not be trampled, we get up and see the sky and see each other; there has to be an answer to this mess, we SHALL OVERCOME ❣️❣️