Just when I needed them, Wendell
Berry’s words reached
out to me: “It
may be that when
we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun
our real journey.”
Always before,
I had a sense which road to take,
but now it seems
both sense and road
have disappeared.
Basic training in letting go
is what I’ll need
as I begin
this last journey.
JDG
aholdingplace 
A recent round of ‘deep talk’ revealed this wisdom: If you arrive at a well delineated plan too quickly or too easily, it’s probably code for: sit longer, dig deeper, crack open just a little bit more . . . I’m not finding this easy, but I know that letting go is the place to start, is the place where the next iteration of transformation can begin. Thanks for saying your message so well.
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“Letting go,” is horrendously difficult. After all, we are talking about everything I believe, know, and understand. This is how I make “sense” of my world, right now. So when “both sense and road have disappeared…” YIKES! Joan; I love the poem, as usual – it makes me think, it reaches me.
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