Fall 2010 is pretty much gone now. Well into the PUSH season and finished with a rough move.
For the curious, the move was just down the road, but I ran out of funds to furnish the place until about 2 weeks ago. Two months of sleeping on an air mattress while working, training and performing will pretty much wreck your season.
Anyway, the place is furnished now and my back thanks me profusely. Things are sort of getting back in the saddle now – rather than hanging on to a stirrup and praying the ground is level. As I was thinking of updating this thingy I came across a poem that kind of speaks to me right now. Hope you enjoy:
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure;
the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair;
the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring:
these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings.
If we refuse to hold them
in hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain,
we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.
– Parker Palmer, from A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
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