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Come rest in the peace of wild things
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Dear Reader, I’ve been waking up early, before my alarm clock. Boom, eyes wide open. There’s so much to do. This morning in my hypnogogic fugue I found myself reciting William Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things. I must have memorized it in high school, because the lines floated easily into mind: When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I do and lie down where the wood drake
Rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds
I come into the peace of wild things
Amidst all of the horrible news, holiday to-dos, and piles of unfinished work, we can still come into the peace of wild things. It is effortless, and always available.
Paraphrasing the words of Berry, here is my wish for you and myself and the world: Come into the presence of still water Feel above you the day-blind stars Waiting with their light. For a time Rest in the grace of the world, and be free Diana |
Dr. Diana Hill
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