PAUSE IN THIS PLACE
Pause in this place.
Yes, look around,
what do you notice?Listen for the heartbeats
of those close by,
flow with their breath.Sense with their eyes,
tune into their ears,
know with their soul.Who are these
we walk on by,
whose air we share?Pause in this place.
We don’t need
to be elsewhere.We are needed here.
+ Sue Heatherington
Doing what we can
with what we have.
Marking the day that was yesterday and being conscious of place, Wendell Berry inspired me, and I returned to Rick Rubin yet again:
There is a day
+ Wendell Berry, poem 1977, VII; from ‘Sabbath Poems’
when the road neither
comes nor goes, and the way
is not a way but a place.
Do what you can
+ Rick Rubin, from ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’, Cannongate, 2023
with what you have.
Nothing more is needed.
Pause. See differently. Re-story 🌿