Friday, December 25, 2009
Abide.
"...I wish I had a river I could skate away on..." Joni Mitchell sang it and sometime in the middle of the holidays I begin to feel it. I like people. I'm a social person. But there are times I need less people around me. I need less presents given and received. I need less parties and decadence. I need more presence. I need to be quiet. I need to abide. And I need to take that with me into the new year. Into the lives of hurting people. Into my own life when I begin to feel tugged at by people and their pressures, or even my own. I don't have a river to skate away on. And maybe it is better that way. But I will be quiet. I will abide.
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" I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
-Henry Thoreau
I can honestly say I know how you feel. Its like you need to open your soul to the world and understand yourself as its child, but at the same time shutting out what has got you to this point... society.
Life is always changing, and so do we...
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