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Closing mini-retreat
Closing mini-retreat
Room opens at 7:15 pmE -- recommending arrival close to this time. There will be a special invitation/consideration on the shared screen to orient us before we officially begin.
We begin promptly at 7:30 and will close at 8:45 pmE.
You may decide to bring journal/writing-drawing materials/an extra blanket & pillows, etc.
ANYTIME BEFORE SUNDAY'S GATHERING:
Please set aside a little time to review one small piece of EIF IV -- Use the site to re-enter the arc of our time together thus far. Intentionally or randomly, select a page, a segment of a theme that draws you in, one OL, IL, or DL invitation (Outer Landscapes, Inner Landscapes, Daily Life), a single breath-sound, and/or a poem. Approach it and yourself newly (or maybe for the first time!).
Use this as a way of attentively accompanying yourself between now and into our closing gathering.
My Courageous Life
has gone ahead
and is looking back,
calling me on.
My courageous life
has seen everything
I have been
and everything
I have not
and has forgiven me,
day after day.
My courageous life
still wants
my company:
wants me to
understand
my life as witness
and thus
bequeath me
the way ahead.
My courageous life
has the patience
to keep teaching me,
how to invent
my own
disappearance,
and how
once gone,
to reappear again.
My courageous life
wants to stop
being ahead of me
so that it can lie
down and rest
deep inside the body
it has been
calling on.
My courageous life
wants to be
my foundation,
showing me
day after day
even against my will,
how to undo myself,
how to surpass myself,
how to laugh as I go
in the face of danger,
how to invite
the right kind
of perilous
love,
how to find
a way
to die
of generosity.
~ David Whyte, in Still Possible, 2022.
Thank You for Your Presence Here.
Thank You for Your Presence Here.
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