CxD #141
If you’re a reader of this here rag, and haven’t taken seriously last issue’s recommendation to watch Ted Lasso, know that you have wandered from the Path. My friend and fellow CxD patron are getting matching Ted Lasso bracelets and butt-cheek tattoos, for whatever that’s worth. Why? Because the entire premise revolves around what happens when you take the principle of meeting others on an equal ground to its beautiful and heart-opening conclusion.
Set aside two hours and play with this Magic Toy as a reminder that your perspective is one among an infinite number. Plus, feel free to throw out your bathroom scale.
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Everything Is Waiting for You
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions.To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding out your solo voice.
You must note the way the soap dish enables you, or the window latch grants you freedom. Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you, and the tiny speaker in the phone is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last.
All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
-David Whyte
CxD office hours 7-10pm, every Thursday @Radio Coffee, Austin, TX. Life returns. Slowly.