IN THE STILLEST, CLEAR LIGHT OF THE DAY
FAR, THROUGH THE SHADOWS OF DARK, DISTANT LANDS
GO IN LOVE, GO IN LOVE, ON YOUR WAY
RACE THROUGH THE RUSHES OF TIME'S THICKEST THINGS
WITH A BLESSING OF WIND IN YOUR HAIR
KNOW ALL THE LIGHTNESS OF LOVE IN YOUR WINGS
SHOW THE WORLD, SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU'RE THERE
GO, GO, WITH THE COMPASS OF YOUR DREAMS
AND THE TRUST IN YOUR HEART AS YOU GROW
YOU CARRY THE LOVE OF YOUR FAMILY OF FRIENDS
IN YOUR LIFE, ALWAYS THERE, WHERE YOU GO
LIVE WITH THE COURAGE TO SHARE WHAT IS REAL
DARE TO LAUGH, DARE TO FEAR, DARE TO CRY
LIVE WITH THE WONDER THAT SHINES IN YOUR EYES
PRECIOUS ONE, ALWAYS CARE, ALWAYS TRY
-Eric Aronson
My friend, Eric Aronson, and I worked together this past year to help develop a trauma recovery program in Sri Lanka with Sensei Joan Hoeberichts, the Heart Circle Sangha and Sarvodaya, both Buddhist organizations. It was an honor for me to be participate in the project. To support my healing, Eric lovingly sent me this song he wrote for his nephew when he was born.
The words are so relevant for anyone who is facing a new world where everything will be given and all will be called. Birth , death, and illness are powerful times of transition in which we pause with exquisite vulnerablity, like the new born who has just entered a world completely foreign. Cancer is like that. What it opens is immense. It requires courage, determination and daring.
The photograph is one I took in the meditation garden in Sri Lanka of our friends, local counselors we helped to train in group, grief and trauma. I think of their genuineness and openess in working with us, but more often what they taught me of courage and the capacity to heal. Sometimes the student is the teacher...
posted by Poetry, Courage, and Cancer at 6:30 AM
1 Comments:
From Jon Gordon:
Here are some additional thoughts:
I'm so hugely impressed with the support and love you're tapping into. In this age when magazines write about people's circles of friendship growing smaller, and the consequences of them not having resources, support and love to draw on, and not even having people with whom they can share thoughts and fears and enthusiasms and joys, the fact that you have so so many, who are enthusiastic to help you in any way they can, including meals, poems, blankets, prayers, vigils, visits, referrals, and so much more, THIS IS WONDERFUL.
It’s true testament to the wonderfulness of you and how you've touched so many. Why do I write this to you, since you of course know it already. Well, because I'm so glad and grateful it's all there for you. What a help, a blessing, a wonderfully deserved outpouring of love, with so many wanting to take on so much to make it better for you. And the most important thing. You deserve it! When you look back on this time, I know you will carry deep within you the meaning of this love. Not all those who are deserving of such caring and support are ever fortunate enough to experience and understand it. I'm glad the opportunity is yours, though of course, without the trials and tribs would have been even more wonderful.
Love ++J++
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