river going by

This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.

~John O’Donohue

when is the right time?

inquiry for today~ may you honor your cycles and wells of unfinished turning….

time shifts again…..

The dream of my life

Is to lie down by a slow river

And stare at the light in the trees—

To learn something by being nothing.

~Mary Oliver

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