{"id":2476,"date":"2017-12-06T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:51","slug":"dec-6-david-whyte-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/12\/06\/dec-6-david-whyte-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 6  &#8211;  David Whyte &#8212;   &#8220;Enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, \u00a0December 6<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough\u201d reminds me of Judith Hill\u2019s \u201cWaging Peace\u201d (posted Dec 2). Habits of beauty and of stillness assume that more than I expect is waiting for me; and waits anywhere.\u00a0 Last full work week of 2013; \u00a0I am missing December snow, \u00a0pretty good wind gusts though. \u00a0Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post<\/strong>:\u00a0 Enough<\/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, Where Many Rivers Meet<\/p>\n<p>p.s. One of the Work Day\/Hard Times list readers emailed to tell me that, although frequently ascribed to Mary Oliver, \u201cWage Peace\u201d is the work of poet and performer Judith Hill \u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elise.com\/q\/poetry\/WagePeace.htm\">http:\/\/www.elise.com\/q\/poetry\/WagePeace.htm<\/a>). \u00a0 As far as I can tell, Wikipedia is silent about why the poem is often ascribed to Mary Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, it looks like it was not Mary Oliver who wrote \u201cMaking Peace,\u201d \u00a0but Judith Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, \u00a0December 6 \u201cEnough\u201d reminds me of Judith Hill\u2019s \u201cWaging Peace\u201d (posted Dec 2). Habits of beauty and of stillness assume that more than I expect is waiting for me; and waits anywhere.\u00a0 Last full work week of 2013; \u00a0I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/12\/06\/dec-6-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\/2476"}],"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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}