10.05.2020
I AM FREE
10.05.2020
Each week I discuss my work statement from my men's group here through prose, poems, music and photos.
I do men's work. Men's work? Yes, I sit in circle with men each week and we practice what it means to be present with our whole person. We encourage each other to go deeper into our emotions, all of them -- fear, sadness, anger, joy, and guilt for starters. Each week we have the floor for 8 mins to explore our own physical sensations and emotions and to be guided by the other men in our group to the edge and go into places that are typically uncomfortable to go to on our own. It is a sacred space where we hold each other accountable to growth, authenticity, love, integrity, and exploring going into uncomfortable feelings and feeling supported.
During our shares we build towards something to take with us for the week, something we're meant to embody in present terms even if it feels slightly out of reach -- a work statement. Each week I'll be titling the blog with my work statement and sharing some art that speaks to what it means for me.
This week I want to share "The Journey" by David Whyte to speak to the feeling of being free. What rings to me here is renewal in endings and the relief that can bring and finding the small inside the big or seeing the divine in the grandness of nature that helps us spot it inside the corners of ourselves. That is freedom.
"The Journey"
Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again
Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.
Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across
the heavens
so you can find
the one line
already written
inside you.
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out
someone has written
something new
in the ashes of your life.
You are not leaving.
Even as the light fades quickly now,
you are arriving.