{"id":2597,"date":"2018-03-07T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:38","slug":"march-7-david-whyte-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/07\/march-7-david-whyte-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"march 7  &#8211;  David Whyte   &#8211;  &#8220;Enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday March 7<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s worth it,\u201d says the wind; \u00a0we mean to say that too as we catch \u00a0each other\u2019s eyes hurrying to get our work done or when we find time to sit still and taste some moments without hurry in them. \u00a0David Whyte\u2019s short poem makes a good breathing space either way: \u00a0in a hurry; \u00a0 sitting still; \u00a0 \u00a0 in a hurry; \u00a0 sitting still. \u00a0 Maybe the soft snow falling out my window tips my inner appetite this morning toward stillness.<\/p>\n<p>No matter where you are as you read this, \u00a0David Whyte is worth some time.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0 \u201cEnough\u201d<\/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<u>Where Many Rivers Meet<\/u>,\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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/David-Whyte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday March 7 \u201cIt\u2019s worth it,\u201d says the wind; \u00a0we mean to say that too as we catch \u00a0each other\u2019s eyes hurrying to get our work done or when we find time to sit still and taste some moments without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/07\/march-7-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\/2597"}],"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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}