Everything Is Waiting For You

IMG_6851MY QUINTESSENTIAL LESSON FOR MY WRITING STUDENTS IS THIS: STAY IN THE CONVERSATION. FROM THIS ADAGE I OFFER ESSENTIAL WRITING PROMPTS AND EXPLORATIONS TO HELP WRITERS STAY IN THE CONVERSATION WITH THEIR SUBJECT AND THEME.

Presently a subject I am writng about is spiritual teachers and the theme is around what makes a good teacher. I carried this question as I went on my morning walk. On several walks this summer I noticed how a Blue Bunting sat on the top branch of a dead tree. I recalled how a friend of mine mentioned how it seemed that birds liked to occupy dead trees. From here i got a nudge for a great analogy about good teachers. And I on my return home I wrote about it.  (You will have to read my next book to find out what i did with this imagery.)

When we stay in the conversation, everything becomes possible material. The world around us is rich and diverse with images, metaphors and analogies to help us express meaning to others. Instead of just saying: This makes a good teacher. In this recent piece I am using the imagery of birds perched in trees.

I focus on this same approach in my spiritual life: stay in the conversation and the world becomes a myriad of possibilities.

Join me in my Transformational Writing circle (a few spots left, starts in October). I also have room in my Keep It Simple Writing Circle.IMG_6352

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
      from Everything is Waiting for You 
     ©2003 Many Rivers Press

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