YIKES! I missed writing last Friday’s blog and Monday’s blog! But I have a good reason-vacation time with family. And almost all the time family time trumps everything else. So until I get myself back in the groove this Friday, I will give you a little David Whyte poetry to ride you over…
INSIDE YOU AND FAR BEYOND YOU
The road seen, then not seen, the hillside
hiding then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall – and the way forward
always in the end, the way that you came, the way
that you followed, the way that carried you into your future,
that brought you to this place, no matter that
it sometimes had to take your promise from you,
no matter that it always had to break your heart
along the way: the sense of having walked
from far inside yourself out into the revelation,
to have risked yourself for something that seemed
to stand both inside you and far beyond you,
and that called you back in the end
to the only road you could follow…
Excerpt from “Santiago”
From PILGRIM: Poems by David Whyte
©2012 David Whyte
Julie Seifert 