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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, June 14, 2005
Earl
Earl has a site online for his photographs. Be sure to check it out periodically. His daughter and son-in-law gave it to him for his birthday, so I'm sure he'll add to it. Nice gift. I have it linked down there on the left with the others.
DCRTA
Well, I joined the retired teachers today for lunch and their quarterly meeting. It was hosted by Tri-Star Bank. I enjoyed seeing some teachers I hadn't been around in a long time. I took Anita Luther's and Bobbie Bowen's advice and said "no" to being chair of the necrology committee (what a name!). Hugh Vineyard is stepping down from it and kept up with who died. I told Carolyn Gray, president, that I'm morbid enough without doing that. Some of you will remember when I made lists of people I found on the internet who were dead at my age and who would have been my age if they hadn't died. We don't neet to encourage me with this. Near-death experiences have odd effects on us and mostly scare us instead of causing us to run through fields exclaiming about the beauty of the earth and all that. Anita told me some time ago that the most valuable advice she could give me was to learn to say no now that I'm retired. I also want to wait about a year before taking on more work than the one day a week I plan to put in at the Dickson Vitamin Center (Feet & More). To encourage me to restrain myself, I'm reading Making A Living Without A Job since I think I might be able to do that. This is a new beginning, so I need to take advantage of it.
4:33:00 PM
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