Sunday, January 1, 2012

Resolution


Ease back
Don't leap at every challenge
Just because it's there
Rest
A little bit
Make space to heal, recharge
Renew

Waste a little time
Pilfered from work or practice
Spent on penny-candy: chat & tease & laughter
Caloric fellowship
Building towards a healthy social weight

Attend
To every letter, sentence, phrase
Plucked from the flow,
With utter concentration, but
Now & then
Unplug
From streaming, breathless news
Inconsequential urgencies

Be generous
In mentoring, in praise and
Reconciliation
Accept that people give
What they can give
No more, no less

And dammit, yet again, this year I do resolve to
Remove the tissues from my pocket when I do the wash

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