Caregivers have superpowers! Radical Loving Care illuminates the divine truth that caregiving is not just a job. It is Sacred Work.
To whoever is not listening to the sea
this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped up
in house, office, factory…
or street or mine or harsh prison cell:
to that person I come, and, without
speaking or looking,
I arrive and open the door of the prison,…
…through me, freedom and the sea
Will call in answer to the shrouded heart.
-Pablo Neruda – from The Poet's Obligation
…and sometimes words swoop in as gift to surprise and delight us, and frees us from the self-absorption with our incessant internal chatter, and brings us back to the sea!
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I can hear the breaking waves on the California shore and breathe the salt air. Thank you for this respite from the papers on my desk.
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When asked what he missed most, a man in one of Tennessee’s prisons said, “The feel of grass.” If I recall correctly, he said opening the refrigerator to get what he wanted to eat was the second thing he missed the most.
All our encounters are sacred, aren’t they? And we bring all of it to one another.
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