Journal of Sacred Work

4 responses to “Days 321-323 – Open Forum for Caregivers”

1. 

   Karen York

   November 20, 2009

   Lately I have found myself unable to write as I once did or perhaps I’m unwilling to go that place where writing is born. Poetry fills that void. I share this with you as it reminds me of my(our) inherent wealth, should we choose to lay aside our ego and find the beauty with which we were created.
   “We are not poor. We are just without riches,
   we who have no will, no world:
   marked with the marks of the latest anxiety,
   disfigured, stripped of leaves.
   Around us swirls the dust of the cities,
   the garbage clings to us.
   We are shunned as if contaminated,
   thrown away like broken pots, like bones,
   like last year’s calendar.
   And yet if our Earth needed to
   she could weave us together like roses
   and make of us a garland.
   For each being is cleaner than washed stones
   and endlessly yours, and like an animal
   who knows already in its first blind moments
   its need for one thing only–
   to let ourselves be poor like that–as we truly are.
   –Rilke

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   ~liz Wessel

   November 20, 2009

   Karen,
   I’ve missed your presence and I appreciate your gift today, thank you.
   To every thing there is a season…
   In fall, trees ink the sky with black lace on a canvas of changing hues.
   Clouds shifting in scenes of expansiveness, rising, setting suns, stars on velvet…calling to you and me, look up….

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   Victoria Facey

   November 20, 2009

   I have no poem to share, however I appreciate the beautiful words above and wish you all a great day!

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   Joanne Manfredi

   February 1, 2010

   Congratulations on your next journey in life.
   Liz Wessel will do a wonderful job with this endeavor!

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