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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, April 17, 2005
Weekend
Friday night Brian, Melissa, and Brendan came down to Creek Wood and joined me for bar-b-que and bluegrass. It was a fundraiser to send some students to Anaheim for a business competition. One Way Street, a local band, was good. Terry Tucker, Marla Corlew, and Kolleen Godwin are the ones in it I know. We enjoyed the evening, and Brendan really zeroed in on the music.
The weather has been wonderful. I spent time inside grading papers, though. This made me think about my life without papers to grade and lessons to plan. That has hung over my head now for almost 40 years. Before that, it was papers to write, tests to study for, and assignments to read. I've been in school all my life except for the five years before I started to school, the three years I stayed home with Brian, and the one year I was on sick leave for cancer. Now I'm looking forward to a life with no alarm clocks and time to do things I want to do. Wow! How wonderful! The only thing that would make it better would be having more, not less, money. Maybe I can still take a cruise and travel and do some of those things I haven't done yet. There are ways. First though, I'm looking forward to cleaning and organizing my house and getting it the way I want it. Then I can enjoy having company a lot more.
1:11:00 PM
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