"Take off from here. And don't be so earnest,
let others wear the sackcloth and the ashes.
Let go, let fly, forget.
You've listened long enough. Now strike your note."
From "Station Island," by Seamus Heaney
Taped Above My Desk
Wednesday December 27, 2006
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The last update to the Chattering Mind blog was in July 2007.
Chattering Mind is a blog on motherhood, aging, health and healing, yoga, whole foods, spiritual music, meditation, as well as the struggle to manage time and clutter.
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What kindred spirits we are, CM. I like the Heaney quote, so deliberate and succinct. Similar in spirit to the Mary Oliver excerpts taped above my desk: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. (from Wild Geese) When it s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms (from When Death Comes) I wonder what is it about us that feels the need to make payment, to seek permission, to want to fly...