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Where Are You Mostly: Being and Doing?

March 31, 2025


There are a million things to do in the course of a day, each pulling at your attention. Sometimes the to-do list can feel hard wired into your nervous system as you fight the seemingly losing battle for balance over doing more and being less. When this feeling overtakes me, I come back to this poem that points me in a direction that reconnects me to the essential.

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 recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue.
Martha Postlewaite

Join me for these offerings designed to create ‘clearing’ in your life.

  • How do you make time for what matters most?
  • What have you put off too long?
  • What in your life is in need of rest?

Tagged With: mindfulness

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