{"id":1150,"date":"2015-01-21T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:52","slug":"jan-21-david-whyte-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/01\/21\/jan-21-david-whyte-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 21  &#8211;  David Whyte  &#8220;Enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday January 21 \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Working Days<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 3 of this Semester still gathers momentum, still lots of \u201cfirst meetings\u201d of the term, students and teachers learning about each other, \u00a0learning what the character of this class might become during its 14 weeks. \u00a0The MLK Day break makes a little breathing space while we settle in for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worth it,&#8221; says the wind; \u00a0we mean to say that too as we catch \u00a0each other\u2019s eyes hurrying to get our work done. \u00a0 David Whyte\u2019s short poem makes a good breathing space for people in a hurry. \u00a0 We ran it last year on January 30; \u00a0a good January poem.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I\u2019ll be in Denver for a board meeting. \u00a0The list returns next Monday. \u00a0Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enough. These few words are enough.<br \/>\nIf not these words, this breath.<br \/>\nIf not this breath, this sitting here.<\/p>\n<p>This opening to the life<br \/>\nwe have refused<br \/>\nagain and again<br \/>\nuntil now.<\/p>\n<p>David Whyte, in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Where Many Rivers Meet<\/span>,\u00a01990<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/David-Whyte.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1151\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/David-Whyte.jpg\" alt=\"David-Whyte\" width=\"121\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday January 21 \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Working Days Week 3 of this Semester still gathers momentum, still lots of \u201cfirst meetings\u201d of the term, students and teachers learning about each other, \u00a0learning what the character of this class might become during its 14 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/01\/21\/jan-21-david-whyte-enough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}