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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, December 07, 2004
PP&M
I read that Mary Travers is going to have chemotherapy for leukemia. I hope everything goes well for her and that she has a complete recovery. I also dread what she is about to experience and wish her the best. Peter, Paul, and Mary have been entertaining me for many years. The latest concert I saw on TV showed her singing to her granddaughter. When I went to see them at TPAC she showed a poster-size photograph of her granddaughter. Her daughter married a Republican who Mary said was the first Republican in her family since they voted for Lincoln. She also commented on the philosophical distance between Greenwich Village where she lived and Grennwich, CT, where her daughter's husband was from. I've seen them in concert 3 times over the years and have enjoyed their albums and spirit. Best wishes to her and them, too.
7:36:00 PM
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