a clearing in the forest
The tension between hustling and waiting is a very real one for me, especially this year. I'm not sure I have the answer, but there is definitely something there. I've been thinking about this so often and a friend sent this poem to me yesterday, so I thought I'd share it with you.
Clearing
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognise and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.
- Martha Postlewaite.
Perhaps making a clearing is what I need to do right now, at this point in time.
Sometimes in life a door closes and a window opens, sometimes you have to go head first through a wall, and sometimes you just have to cup your hands.
Get skin in the game.