Today promises to be a typical hot day in late June. The forecast predicts little wind, though!
I'm reading an interesting book by Parker Palmer (Quaker teacher, activist, writer.) His writing is thought-provoking and spiritual. Let Your Life Speak is about finding one's vocation. Yes! I'm middle-aged and "retired" and I'm still wondering what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. I guess I'm in the same boat as everyone else and when we stop wondering, we're either dead or dying!
I continue to write or re-write poems nearly every day. Here's one I first wrote in April. I know that whatever my "vocation", I hope that compassion is a large part of it. May it also be a large part of yours, dear reader.
How to gain compassion
There is no compassion
in the busy frenetic life.
One must sit still long enough
to feel the pain of another.
And soak in solid silence
so to hear the crushing whisper
of another’s sorrow.
Then with resolve, do
what is required
but not without first
taking time to pray.
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