How does one preserve so much that is true? How does one keep all the words, ideas, themes, convictions, images, and imaginations for a better life in a place of mind and heart where they can stick and change and bless?
Oh, Good Scholar
The Road to Poetry
I already knew from my own experience that memorizing poetry was doing a work on my interior spaces, but I haven’t tried especially hard to put language around what that work is. I have felt it and known its power, and I have returned time and again to seek out beautiful poetry, to commit the lines to memory, and to give them safekeeping in my heart.
No Bad Weather?
There’s also a saying (song) that goes: Summertime, and the living is easy…
I don’t agree with the Nordic idea about no weather being bad, but I do know wearing the right clothes makes dealing with the bad weather easier. After three rainy Fridays in a row, followed by a rainy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and possibly Thursday this week, I am reminded again of how little I can control.
