Struck.
With news.
Of terrible loss.
How can this be?
Pain, fear, doubt, guilt, shame.
Deeply entwined in so many lives.
I awoke thinking myself an individual being.
Now drawn into a reality larger than myself.
I cannot escape my part in this complex world.
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I am a co-creator of this vast, complex reality.
And this reality continuously pours into my life.
I move around receiving life’s free offerings.
Today, life gives; today I experience
Pleasure, love, safety, joy, gratitude
Freely given, humbly received.
My turn, again.
To touch.
Life.
~Bob Patrick
*I made up this poetic exercise. I invite you to give it a try. The nine steps are nine lines that grow in number. The first line has one word. The second two, and so on until you reach a nine word line. Then, you reverse it, down to one, again. What are your nine steps into interdependence, into the interdependent web of existence?
Wow!! Thank you for sharing this exercise! With your permission, I’ll weave it into the Writing as a Spiritual Practice auction offering I’ll share later this year! Beautiful, powerful work. How creativity grows when we offer it a container, boundaries that prompt invention.
And yes. Waking to news of the pain of the world, and re-membering ourselves into the parts of this one great interconnected body.
Love. First and always: love.