I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me
not feel I wasted any, let me
not feel…that I forgot
to give what I held in my hands,
that I forgot to do some little
piece of the work that wanted
to come through…
~ Marge Piercy, excerpt from “If They Come in the Night”, Circles on the Water: Selected Poems
Notes: Poem – Thank you Beth at Alive on all Channels, Photo: Adeline Spengler, The Jump Touch the Sky, 2013 (via newthom)
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Tudo no ar ou flutua… Belíssimo!!!
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It does. Now to get my body up to float like that too!
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Part of my every morning-sitting with my gratitude, hope & fervent hope that I treasure this life in total.
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Yes….
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WMS! I, too, try to take a few moments each day and record three things for which I’m grateful. I find that this simple exercise reframes my outlook significantly…small investment, big outcome. ☺️
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Some how I think your recorded three things and the content describing mine would be akin to crayon and fountain pen.
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I beg to differ, my friend. You wield a fountain pen on a regular basis here….
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Smiling. Ms. Grace. All the time.
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Me riding the crayon of course
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“… of the work that wanted to come through me.”
I’m loving the concept. So, it is all work that wants to come through me? Hhhmm
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Apparently, it’s bursting.
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It’s been a long day
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Not feeling anything coming through
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If any man cannot grasp this matter, let him be idle and the matter will grasp him.
– Heinrich Suso, The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons (Palest Press, June 1, 1989))
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i try to remember…
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I like my life, too. All of it. 💘
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Me too Van.
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
I like my life …..
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Love this, David!
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Hi Roseanne. This hit me the same way. Wonderful.
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Nothing is wasted, love it or unlike it.
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That’s it…..
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I always say that if given the chance to do over, I’d make the same decisions I made throughout my life. A tweak here and there, but I’ve come out pretty happy, landing on my feet with good family and good friends. I hope you have too.
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I’m squarely in same place as you are Claudia. Same exact place.
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Loved reading the comments and your replies, David… especially Claudia’s comment.
So many ups and downs we experience through life; but, if we can say, except for a tweak here and there the result is pretty good ~ we are doing OK, for sure… 🙂
xoxoxo
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Thanks Carolyn. Yes, all pretty good, all the time.
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The image, future Olympian, I think.
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Goofed that comment… I am of course referring to the person in the image
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Of course!
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