slow way with you. Patient
pines that hold their green
through all the frozen seasons,
lichen-covered rocks that live
indifferent to time's passage--
these will teach you how to
bring your life to ground.
The fractal chaos of the forest
floor, its white anemones,
spiked grasses and dead leaves,
the fallen trunks and branches
splayed out like pick-up sticks--
these will teach you how
to live freely, with abandon,
and feed the roots of new growth
when your time has come.
--Parker J. Palmer
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