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Let Awake Be Awake

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on March 11, 2023| 11 Comments »

 
Oh to wake in the middle of the night
and not wish to be asleep. To not wish
for anything but what is, which is,
in this moment, being awake.
To let the mind wander
because that is what the mind is doing.
To let the heart clench around its losses
because that is what a heart does.
Being awake in the middle
of the night is teaching me
to be so gentle with myself, to be
with what is and do nothing about it.
To not turn on the light. To let the dark
be dark. To let what is awake be awake.
To let what aches ache. To feel the deep peace
of not trying to anything. To meet
the moment as it is, as inevitable as dawn,
as loyal, as changing as wind.

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Then I Stood There a Long Time

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 10, 2023| 11 Comments »


 
Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.
            —Mary Oliver, “It Was Early”
 
 
There is no lovely way to put this.
It was sleeting. I am not going to tell you
how the gray sky unfolded like a somber rose,
how the misty air softened every dark
and barren thing. It was sleeting.
And slick. And when I fell, it hurt.
A lot. But I got up. I got up.  

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