This is, perhaps, the year to learn to be big.
Spruce tree big. Cliffside big. Big as mesa,
as mountain lake. Big as in cosmos, as in love.
Being small has never served me—constricting,
contorting, trying to fit into a room, into shoes,
into a name. Let this be the year to escape all those little
rules with those little shoulds, all those little
cages with their little locks. Time to make of myself
a key, time to lean into immensity. Time to supersize
communion, time to grow beyond self. Time to
open, to unwall, to do as the universe does,
accelerating as it expands, not rushing toward
something else, but changing the scale of space itself.
This is the year to be big .
Amen to being without walls
Part of everything and
Whole …
🙂
Na’ama
Amen! So crazy I ever forget it!
I think we’re made to forget it, living within the perceived boundaries of our skin and senses as we tend to do. Perhaps part of the challenge is to remember how we must have felt when born – indistinguishable from the world around us, immersed in the now. Here’s to re-discovering what we already know … 😉
Oh yes, you say it so well … here’s to that rediscovery … we have that wisdom inside us somewhere!
Oh, they certainly tell us to be small, quiet, polite. But it is indeed time, as you say so clearly, to be big. “Big as in cosmos, as in love.” A holy yes!
Thank you, friend … yes, you totally grasped the tenor of this poem. Yours in the year of big love!
r
I have been carrying this around with me all day. It’s just so BIG. Thank you
Oh dear you!
Thank you … it felt that way to me, too … big love to you!
I LOVE this!!!! Oh yes oh yes!! This is exciting! 🙂 Your words, “Being small has never served me” are just so damn true. And I think of all the BIG things that will come of this! It’s gonna be a BIG year- I’ll join you in the BIG idea. Love and Namaste my friend
Yes, Augusta, a big big year. And thank heavens for big plans together. And big love. And big ideas. xxooo
I shared this beautiful poem today in my Yoga class, in fact it inspired the whole class! We made big shapes with our bodies sending our inhales to the very tips of our fingers and toes, inhabiting our bodies fully and owning our space. Thank you so much Rosemerry x
Thank you, Caroline, for this great story! I can so see you all being big!! Reaching down and up, out and, of course, in, all that inner space. Thank you!