{"id":1244,"date":"2015-03-06T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:37","slug":"march-6-david-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/03\/06\/march-6-david-whyte\/","title":{"rendered":"March 6 – David Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, March 6, 2015 – “These few words are enough.”<\/p>\n

I posted David Whyte\u2019s, \u201cEnough,” on January 21, but something about the words caught my attention this morning: as a splendid sun rose over Parking Lot D at 7:01, not quite half way from its December solstice rising point over the corner of Calihan Hall and the June equinox when the sun will bedevil east bound drivers on all Detroit’s east-west surveyed mile roads. When that day comes, assuming a sunrise like today\u2019s, it will drive some of us nuts for a few minutes. But it\u2019s worth it. And all the work that we turn to on this early March day, here in clean-rinsed sunrise, or somewhere in harder weather, whether we enter the day with spring in our step or carrying burdens that we cannot ignore. Here in Detroit, in battered Boston, around the world, people set their shoulders to the day\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n

Cold outside here too, under the sun. By noon it will be cold and windy . . . still winter, no? \u201cIt\u2019s worth it,” says the wind; we mean to say that too as we catch each other\u2019s eyes hurrying to get our work done. David Whyte\u2019s short poem makes a good breathing space for people in a hurry.<\/p>\n

Best to read the poem out loud, with pauses. Weekend blessings too.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post: \u201cEnough\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enough. These few words are enough.
\nIf not these words, this breath.
\nIf not this breath, this sitting here.
\nThis opening to the life
\nwe have refused
\nagain and again
\nuntil now.<\/p>\n

David Whyte, in Where Many Rivers Meet<\/span>, 1990<\/p>\n

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