Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we are one more embarking on a journey!
So today we are in America and we will explore:
KINDNESS
Naomi Shihab Nye (born March 12, 1952) is a poet, songwriter, and novelist. Although she calls herself a "wandering poet", she refers to San Antonio as her home. She says a visit to her grandmother in the West Bank village of Sinjil was a life-changing experience. Nye’s first two chapter books, Tattooed Feet (1977) and Eye-to-Eye (1978), are written in free verse and possess themes of questing. Nye’s first full-length collection, Different Ways to Pray
(1980), explores the differences between and shared experiences of
cultures from California to Texas and from South America to Mexico. Hugging the Jukebox
(1982), a full-length collection that won the Voertman Poetry Prize,
focuses on the connections between diverse peoples and on the
perspectives of those in other lands. Yellow Glove (1986) presents poems with more tragic and sorrowful themes.
Poem:
Before you
know what kindness really is
you must
lose things,
feel the
future dissolve in a moment
like salt in
a weakened broth.
What you
held in your hand,
what you
counted and carefully saved,
all this
must go so you know
how desolate
the landscape can be
between the
regions of kindness.
How you ride
and ride
thinking the
bus will never stop,
the
passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare
out the window forever.
Before you
learn the tender gravity of kindness
you must
travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by
the side of the road.
You must see
how this could be you,
how he too
was someone
who
journeyed through the night with plans
and the
simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you
know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must
know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must
wake up with sorrow.
You must
speak to it till your voice
catches the
thread of all sorrows
and you see
the size of the cloth.
Then it is
only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only
kindness that ties your shoes
and sends
you out into the day to gaze at bread,
only
kindness that raises its head
from the
crowd of the world to say
It is I you
have been looking for,
and then
goes with you everywhere
like a
shadow or a friend.
Thoughts:
We all need to be kind. I try very hard to remind myself every day how important is show kindness to everyone and just to let things go.
I am not the person who let's things go easily but I try very hard, so accept everything and not let myself put anyone down. I think it's a lesson I and all of us need to remember and follow every day.
I am not the person who let's things go easily but I try very hard, so accept everything and not let myself put anyone down. I think it's a lesson I and all of us need to remember and follow every day.
Stay Cozy and see you next Monday!
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