Listening to the song of this place
Have we ever stopped to wonder if the place where we are has a song?
Usually, we think it is all about the present when today is merely one note in a melody that came before and will outlive us.
How can we become attuned to this song?
SONG OF THIS PLACE
Will I pause to listen
for the song of this place,
instead of simply ?
absorbing surface noise.
How do I hear voices
singing a different melody,
or catch the intricacies
of unfamiliar harmonies.
Can I feel the heartbeat
of the rhythms and
the soul of this place
I am called to make home.
+ Sue Heatherington
I sense that now is the time to listen more deeply.
And that takes being present.
Pause. See differently. Re-story ??
~ I carried this thought over the weekend in response to the close of Steve Garnaas-Holmes’ poem, Your Part, which I quoted in ‘Your part in new beginnings’ .