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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Saturday, June 22, 2002
Abby Normal
I'm sleeping again, thank goodness! For someone who has almost no tolerance for being uncomfortable and inconvenienced, this is going to be quite a challenge! At least I'm getting back to abnormal.
Sheena and I had lunch yesterday at The Front Porch and then rode around neighborhoods looking at houses and talking. That was really fun.
I'm making my fifth trip to Nashville this week this evening to pick up Earl at the airport. He's been to Tampa to visit his daughter Lydia. When he came down from South Fulton Tuesday for me to take him to the airport, I asked him to see if he could remove a video tape I'd gotten stuck in the VCR. Since it was a combo TV/VCR, he took the TV apart but couldn't get the tape out. That flippy part is stuck, probably because of my impatience with electronics. I'm sure clicking "play" before it was ready caused this to happen. Well, actually it's probably because of my making fun of Sheena for her impatience. Instant karma got me!
Earl is a good friend who is like a brother. Ann Sensing introduced us and said only our minds needed to meet. She was right. Earl is a legend in his spare time, he says. He was nominated for a Pulitzer for photojournalism when he was with the Tallahassee Democrat, was State photographer in TN, travelled with Lamar! (we must be sure to include the exclamation mark) to shoot pictures for his campaign, and is one of the funniest people I know. If you'd like to be his next ex-wife, let me know. His daughter Amanda and I are the approval committee since we're still traumatized by his last choice!
1:14:00 PM
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