Take your waking slow

September 25, 2022

If you’ve ever grabbed a stick from the ground and though, ‘oh, this is a good stick,’ then we’re family.
— Jarod K. Anderson, "The CryptoNaturalist"

One idea to keep it slow and simple … Take your waking slow

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.” So begins a favorite poem, “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke. In these verses, Roethke tells us that “I learn by going where I have to go.”

He examines the way lights shift on a tree, observes the slow crawl of a worm, and walks softly on the ground, watching and learning the ways of “great nature.”

We can’t always take our waking slow. But maybe this day. This hour. Take this one slow. Walk lightly on the ground and watch the fall roll in. Find yourself a good stick. Let your intuition guide you to the next moment, and learn by going there.

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