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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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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Solution
I've figured out my problem - well, one of them anyway. All I need to do now is impose deadlines on myself that convince me to get things done. The problem with behavior modification is that those rewards seem artificial since I can go to a movie or buy a book if I want to and don't really believe I have to jump through self-imposed hoops to earn them. This excerpt from an article helped clarify this.
War reporter: "I almost wish I were staying longer. Almost."
Flak Magazine
Christian Science Monitor war correspondent Ben Arnoldy went through severe Internet withdrawal when he got to Kuwait. "When you suddenly lose the main instrument of procrastination, it's equivalent to not getting enough REM sleep I think," he says. The 26-year-old reporter is more chipper knowing when he's going home. "When I came out here, I didn't know how long I'd be gone," he writes. "And after a few weeks, that not knowing weighed on me heavily. Once my editor set a departure date, I found that I gained incredible focus and revived spirits. In fact, I've gotten in such a groove lately, I almost wish I were staying longer. Almost."
1:26:00 PM
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