If your work involves caring for others, you know how easy it is to become overwhelmed by the needs around you. Each week, I share stories and practices on building the capacity, relationships, and habits to sustain care over the long haul.
Beyond The Land of the Right, the Land of the Wrong: The Wednesday 1-2-3
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Hey Reader, Last week, I shared a quick one-question survey asking for a bit of feedback. I'm already super thankful for what people have sent in. If you have 30 seconds (it's really just one question), I'd love to hear from you. Okay – onward to today's prompt: In the middle of reading Rumi's wonderful poem, “A Great Wagon,” there's a stanza that stuck out to me as deeply familiar: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
I read it again. And then again. I knew these words. And then it struck me – it sounded an awful lot like a verse from one of my favorite songs! Beyond the land of the right, the land of the wrong
There's a field waiting for us.
All the notions of you, the notions of me –
We finally agree don't mean a thing.
You can imagine how excited I was to stumble upon this connection. And so this week, I wanted to share the song “One” by Birdtalker. If you’ve never heard it before, enjoy. If you’ve heard it before (probably because I recommend it every chance I get), I hope you find some time this week to enjoy it again. ❓ Questions
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Gentle Change
If your work involves caring for others, you know how easy it is to become overwhelmed by the needs around you. Each week, I share stories and practices on building the capacity, relationships, and habits to sustain care over the long haul.