Someone we love, old friend, has telephoned to let me know you're gone—and so you are. I touch the steady books; my mind casts back, then forth, and says, as you said once, So long— I look toward seeing you everywhere.
William Stafford wrote two of my all time favorite poems. Here's one: ----------------------- The Little Ways that encourage Good Fortune
Wisdom is having things right in you life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.
The saddest are those not right in their lives who are acting to make things right for others: they act only from the self-- and that self will never be right: no luck, no help, no wisdom.
William Stafford wrote two of my all time favorite poems. Here's one:
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The Little Ways that encourage Good Fortune
Wisdom is having things right in you life
and knowing why.
If you do not have things right in your life
you will be overwhelmed:
you may be heroic, but you will not be wise.
If you have things right in your life
but do not know why,
you are just lucky, and you will not move
in the little ways that encourage good fortune.
The saddest are those not right in their lives
who are acting to make things right for others:
they act only from the self--
and that self will never be right:
no luck, no help, no wisdom.
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Great insight, beautifully put.
Big Frank Dickinson
Thanks Big Frank. I'll be posting that poem at some point down the line.
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