Posts Tagged ‘new idea’
The text in red below is from Susan Cain’s Kindred Spirits Newsletter* on 2.1.23. I knew the minute I read it, I would find some way to build a Valentine’s post around it. I highly recommend the entire post that the red section below was only part of. Her words will be in red and my […]
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For the Road to Santiago by David Whyte “For the road to Santiago, don’t make new declarations about what to bring and what to leave behind. Bring what you have. You were always going that way anyway, you were always going there all along.” No New Year’s Resolutions, as we traditionally think […]
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I penned a version of this essay on Mother’s Day 2021. I invite us to consider the idea of finding our way into appreciating the gifts hidden in our impossible life situations, those things we cannot change, but deeply wish we could. To shift our gaze and adjust our narrative about our difficulties and […]
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“Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time, it will turn out … This is it.” Pema Chodran Abiding truth. This. It recalls T.S. Eliot’s “Hope would be hope for the wrong thing” as he too, calls us to the Waiting. the Being […]
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Dear Readers, I am an apprentice to David Whyte’s Invitas: A Path to Conversational Leadership. I have followed his work for nearly 25 years now. I have learned to be in dialogue with any and everything , so too, with poems. In fact listening to David recite and riff on a poem puts one in […]
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