Monday and sometimes…

Just THANK YOU for showing up for classes, being out there, and in this together. 

Here is the poem I shared after class today. I think it may be a Covid Classic for me. Not because it sinks us into dark or unanswerable questions.  But  because it strips away all the distractions our lives have held.  And we look a little deeper into this person we have spent our lifetime creating.  This resilient and confused and seeking person that we forget because we are so busy doing and becoming.  I hope those questions come to you gently. And that you look at them with time and compassion.  And you find that light inside you that simply knows the answer. You are enough AS YOU ARE.
We got this.  One day,  one hour at a time…because we can. Hugs and embraces will be back.  And they will mean so very much. 

Enjoy your Monday.  Seeing and hearing you has made me enjoy mine.With embraces in whatever form they hold…

Sometimes by David Whyte

Sometimes
if you move carefully 
through the forest

breathing 
like the ones
in the old stories

who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound, 

you come 
to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead to everywhere.

Requests 
to stop what you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you 
are becoming 
while you do it,

questions that can
make 
or unmake
a life.

questions
that have patiently 
waited for you,

questions 
that have no right
to go away.