In response to my long-overdue Full Blooming News e-newsletter this week, I heard back from some people. Lovely connection!
My friend Charlotte from Georgia, commented that I even wrote my response to her poetically. We were talking about getting frustrated and discouraged sometimes, feeling like giving up. And I told her a realization that had been helpful to me lately, to get out of the impossible traps we set for ourselves. (What does it mean to be successful, anyway?) She took a paragraph of mine, added line breaks and color, and the result is below, which I like it a lot. Thank you!
Charlotte is a multi-talented woman who is a pianist, composer, gardener, photographer, memoirist and makes lovely videos using all these elements. Her latest is here. She inspires me!
What have your friends mirrored back to you lately?
4/2/14
This is what I have come to understand:
my job, should I choose to accept it,
is to deliver the poems.
To get them out in the world
to as many as can be helped.
It is about redefining success
as I had been longing for.
Success is doing my job:
delivering the poems—
to an individual,
to a group,
as best I can.
And that is all.
To do that means
being as healthy
and balanced
and grounded as I can—
every day.
It means listening inside
and paying attention
before I “fall off the cliff.”
Margaret Dubay Mikus
© 2014
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