Pause in this place
Sue Heatherington @The Waterside

Pause in this place

Sue Heatherington Sue Heatherington

Sue Heatherington

Wild hope & a few good words... pathfinder, poet, farmer

发布日期: 2023年2月25日
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PAUSE IN THIS PLACE


Pause in this place.

Yes, look around,

what do you notice?


Listen for the heartbeats

of those close by,

flow with their breath.


Sense with their eyes,

tune into their ears,

know with their soul.


Who are these

we walk on by,

whose air we share?


Pause in this place.

We don’t need

to be elsewhere.


We are needed here.

Doing what we can

with what we have.

+ Sue Heatherington


Marking the day that was yesterday and being conscious of place, Wendell Berry inspired me, and I returned to Rick Rubin yet again:


There is a day

when the road neither

comes nor goes, and the way

is not a way but a place.

+ Wendell Berry, poem 1977, VII; from ‘Sabbath Poems’


Do what you can

with what you have.

Nothing more is needed.

+ Rick Rubin, from ‘The Creative Act: A Way of Being’, Cannongate, 2023


Pause. See differently. Re-story ??


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Elaine Thompson Interwoven

Teacher - Parent - Neural Coder?? - Pathfinder - Mapmaker - ????

2 年

Pause, see differently, re-story… I think someone will read this now who missed it the first time. How marvellous that you felt embarrassed and posted again. You are not just a wonderful wordsmith x

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