[at-l] Wonder if I am being told something? :)

[pmags at yahoo.com (Paul Magnanti)]

--- Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> But... you can do both at the same time. I've tried
> all sorts of sitting 
> meditation and a walk in the woods works better for
> me.
> 
>

Likewise..and for many people here. Wonderful woman
this person..but she can't understand why I go to the
woods for my peace and contemplation. I sent her back
the Wendell Berry poem (included at the bottom of the
e-mail) that I love.  A point of contention with us
was this wanderlust I have....and it won't go away
despite whatever quote I may get sent. :) 

To be fair to her, her horizons are more traditional
(ready to buy a home, have children) and there is
nothing wrong with these goals. We are just not the
right people for each other, and sacrificing my
wanderlust is not an option.


THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of
the night at the least sound in fear of what my life
and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron
feeds. 
I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. 

I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting for their light. 

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am
free. 

--Wendell Berry, THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS 
 


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