I find my heart beating in a four-way tempo
and dig behind my ribs to figure out what’s wrong.
Just the same–
it’s forgotten how to do things the easy way.
~ Elisabeth Hewer, from “The Easy Way” in Wishing for Birds
Notes:
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go to your quiet place –
It’ll find its way. Don’t worry!
When! When!
When your new puppy finds you!
Laughing.
There are many kinds of prayer. There is a kind of prayer that’s like breathing. There is a kind of prayer that’s like talking to your best friend all day long. There is a kind of prayer in the face of beauty that lifts your hands up because it would be harder to keep them down. There is a kind of prayer for meaning that is answered by the one who wrote the book of the whole world and your life, so that the prayer is like waking up and finding yourself a character in the most elaborate of novels, as you’ve always suspected: authored, written into a world of meaning, a world meaningful because it was created by someone. There is a kind of prayer that is only a listening, the soft voice of God saying your name, saying “come to me, come to me.”
~ Kristin Dombek, from “Letter from Williamsburg” (Paris Review, Issue no. 205, Summer 2013)
How serendipitous to read this right here, right now. It is exactly how I feel…
Hoping a long soak in my run brings me back.
Sounds wonderful!
It was!
Perhaps why I’m awake…my heart feeling swollen (figuratively) supersedes all.
now that stopped me in my tracks. I had to read several times to digest. Yes. Sigh.
Sometimes it just feels bigger than the body that contains it, you know?
I feel exactly the same. Often. Too often. Sending you a healing thought!
So much bigger
Some days I completely forget the easy way! 🙄
(and me, most days) 🙂
Blimey, this is me, so very often….. And I find it’s often easier when I’m up and wide (well maybe just …..) awake and really takes too much place in my body during the sleepless nights.
Me too!
Life is striking that way – I love those ‘aha!’ moments when I realize I’ve taken a side journey out of the flow. Doesn’t happen often, but still.
So true Bela…