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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, February 12, 2006
A Book I Want to Read
I just heard an interview with Hal Crowther on NPR's Fresh Air with Rebecca Bain about his latest book Gather at the River. It's refreshing and rare to meet people not from here who actually "get" the South. He's a former sportswriter and commented on Pete Rose's online campaign to get into the Hall of Fame and how if he gets in there, it shouldn't be until after Shoeless Joe Jackson does. His essays range from that to one about Dolly Parton, who is a friend of his wife. It's about the South, and I'm looking forward to reading it since I agreed with what he said about it in the interview.
9:31:00 AM
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