The Way It Is

The Way It Is

May 27, 2020 | Mindfulness, Poetry

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get...
One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Mar 2, 2020 | Poetry

One morning we will wake up and forget to build that wall we’ve been building, the one between us the one we’ve been building for years, perhaps out of some sense of right and boundary, perhaps out of habit. One morning we will wake up and let our empty hands hang...
The Word by Tony Hoagland

The Word by Tony Hoagland

Jan 31, 2019 | Poetry, Self-Compassion

Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli,” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a...
Aimless Love by Billy Collins

Aimless Love by Billy Collins

Mar 31, 2018 | Mindfulness, Poetry

This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining room table. In the shadows of an autumn evening, I fell for a seamstress still at her machine in the tailor’s window, and...
Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood

Unconditional by Jennifer Welwood

Mar 31, 2000 | Mindfulness, Poetry, Self-Compassion

Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I gain the embrace of the universe; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee...