We bumble along, focusing on minutiae, worrying and fretting away our days, too often worrying about things which will either never happen, or things over which we have no control. Which distracts us from “that unmistakable pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls plunging and steaming.”
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
West Wind #2 by Mary Oliver
Posted in Books and Ideas, Spirituality, tagged personal growth, poetry, spirituality on September 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Posted in Spirituality, tagged poetry, spirituality on June 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This beautiful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye gives me a way to make at least a little gold out of the dirt of great loss.
The beehive inside my heart
Posted in Personal Growth, Spirituality, tagged poetry, spirituality on April 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Antonio Machado’s poem “Last Night as I Was Sleeping” provides a lovely view on redemption, grace, and acceptance dreaming, as it does, of golden bees in our hearts making sweet honey of our failures. I find that hopeful and comforting.
