Monthly Archives: January 2006

The Journey by David Whyte

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
small, 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 you are arriving.

(House of Belonging, poetry by David Whyte)

geese flying at sunrise

I love this!

I am writing from Judi’s living room. She just awoke and is in the kitchen starting coffee while Happy meows at her feet to be fed (although he’s already enourmous and has almost the same profile viewed from the side as from the front.) On the couch, Helen still peacefully sleeps. And I am tap-tapping away on my laptop, (belatedly) updating gigglefern from afar, wirelessly connected. Steve got a loaner card for Verizon’s new broadband wireless service and I’m testing it out on this little reunion jaunt to Sacto. So far, it is the bees knees, working everywhere I’ve been … except at home, of course. Just another reason to move, perhaps?