My Skin

The mood of this song says it all. . .

 

What the river says

Something weird has happened to me in the last two weeks. I think for many years I was waiting for commitment and motivation to just happen to me and then always wondered what my problem was. So finally I just made a choice because I felt like it and suddenly the commitment came rushing in. That said, I'm going back to school to finish my design degree and I'm REALLY excited. This process I've busted through has been inspiring and has given me an opportunity to complete the past, and feel resolved about the "mistakes" I've made. Every time I think about it a favorite poem pops into my head : )

Ask Me
by William Stafford

Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.