Waiting

I feel like I’ve spent so much of my time in the last 2½ years waiting. Much of it revolving around the never ending pandemic. From the initial shut down in 2020 to the subsequent waves of variants. Each season a new kind of wait…for better weather, for lower new case numbers, to lower hospitalizations to happier and healthier times as a nation. Meanwhile life marches on and we all continue to wait in many ways every single day. I ran across this quote the other day and it stuck in my head.

“ Waiting is also a place, it’s everywhere you wait.”

Margaret Atwood.

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Reach for better

She said the pandemic is also an opportunity to “decide how you want to show up in the new world. Because it will be a new world.”

She said her greatest hope is that people reach for normal, “that we reach for better”.

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“Tis the Set of the Sail

One ship sails east and one sails west

By the self-same wind that blows;

“Tis the set of the sail and not the gale

That determines the way it goes.

 

Like the ships of the sea are the ways of fate

As we voyage along through life;

“Tis the set of the soul that determines the goal

And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American author and poet)

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Introspection

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild;

when it is quiet and serene;

when it is dark and moody.

And in all its moods,

I see myself.

-Martin Buxbaum

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Wisdom

Yesterday I was clever,
so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise,
so I am changing myself.
-Rumi

Image titled Boundless, artist Steve Hanks.
From Google images.

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Change

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an African-American author, poet, dancer, and singer. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than 50 years. She received dozens of awards and over 30 honorary doctoral degrees.

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