Itâs a touching poem about mediocrity. And ducks.
Mar 28, 2024
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Geese cannot pick up their young and take flight, lifting them into the air; all they can do is swim, carrying the goslings through the water atop their backs. First-year geese have a survival rate of 50-70 percent. Geese mate for life and love their young fiercely. They are quite emotional creatures.
Three geese sitting atop posts like sentinelsÂ
watch as two goslings below the dam
swim against the tide
crashing into the falling water
over and over
fighting to get back to where they were.
No way to go but down.
They settle on a rocky clearing above the water,
tired and wet,
shaking the water off of their backsâunaware.
The mother goose looks at me and calls to meÂ
(we donât share a languageâ
but I understand her desperate cry for help).
She lays down flat on the post, despondent and resigned.
The flock comes to her and surrounds her.
I cannot look away or leave;
we are bearing witness.
Cruelest world takes life every day,
and sometimes there is nothing we can do but watch.
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Jan 27, 2025
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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Jun 13, 2025
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Stream of consciousness write for two reasons: it allows the subconscious, which has been working all night to provide solutions for your life in your sleep, to be heard; secondly, youâll find that itâs probably the most honest youâll be with yourself throughout the day.
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Writing of his experiences in Auschwitz, psychologist Viktor Frankl stated, âThose who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any âhowâ.â
This thought came to him after he nearly surrendered to despair and died by suicide. Right before the event, however, he remembered how much he loved his wife, and the thought carried him through his experiences until the time he could go home.
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