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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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Sunday, June 20, 2004
Whatever
I'm listening to Prairie Home Companion, and Jearlyn Steele sang "Crazy" on the show. Now she's singing a Bonnie Raitt song "Something to Talk About." I don't know her. She does OK with it, but no one has ever sung "Crazy" better than Patsy Cline did - even though Linda Ronstadt did pretty well, and Mandy Barnett sounded a whole lot like her in the show at the Ryman Remembering Patsy. Was that the title of it? That was really good. Patsy could really communicate a song, and set the bar really high. When he was asked whose performance was his favorite of "Crazy," Willie Nelson said Patsy Cline's. He wrote it, you know. I like to listen to Willie. Mother and I went to a concert he gave at Opryland (wish it were still there instead of Shopryland). He was great and sang for over two hours.
I'm feeling uncommonly good today even though I was up ridiculously late reading King of Torts by John Grisham. I couldn't quit until I finished it. I'm also reading Sea Glass by Anita Shreve which I borrowed from Gena's mother. I wouldn't take it until she promised that it didn't end with a cheap shot the way The Last Time They Met did. That book made me so angry because of the ending that I vowed never to read anything else she wrote. So here I am, and it needs to do better. If it does, I'll read some of the others but not until I am reassured. I was even tempted to write to her, and I've never written to an author for any reason.
I've been cooking today and getting ready for the week. Sunday is my favorite day to listen to NPR. Maybe I'll iron tonight while I watch Clinton on 60 Minutes and the new episode of Coupling. So much to do and it's going to rain all week which might work out well since I have things in the house to do. It's not working out as well as I'd hoped with the class at school since that takes most of the day (8-3). It will be over soon, and I can have whole days at a stretch. At least there are no papers to grade.
How are you doing? Anyone going anywhere or doing fun things?
2:43:00 PM
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