Get Back on Track
by Beth Weaver-Kreider, 11/24

step it out, catch a breath
make a space, take a rest
let it go, let it come
carry on, get it done

take a break, break a pattern
blast the rules, what’s the matter?
tune it out, turn it off,
jump down, land soft

watch the sky, pray for rain
quiet your heart, quiet your brain
relax your shoulders, stretch your back
take time off, get back on track

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“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love’s path is communication.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.”  ―Gandalf
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“A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can’t make people listen. They have to come ‘round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. It can’t last.” —Granger, in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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“When I stopped trying to change you, you changed me.” ―Rachel Macy Stafford
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“When will the change begin? When will it start to happen? We have waited so long and prayed so long, when will the light begin to shine in this conflicted world? Our answer is: when we each begin to see it in ourselves. When we believe and not despair, when we love and not fear, when we give and not take – then we will see the change start to happen, and happen all around us. The answer is already here, within, waiting for us to find it.” —Steven Charleston
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“When Teresa of Avila was asked what she did in prayer, she replied, ‘I just allow myself to be loved.'” —Anthony de Mello
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“I never lose. I either win or I learn.” —Nelson Mandela
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“If you have never been called an incorrigible, defiant, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes