[Oe List ...] Fwd: Life Does Not Move In One Direction

[Clare Whitney]

Dear Sunny,  I hope she wasn't hurt when you ran in to her!  The poem is great - have you ordered book yet?  I'd like to buy one - there's something about buying three and getting one free!  I might get one for Colleen, too - she's rather lonely and needy right now.
  
Hope to see you at lunch at 12:30 at Little India on E. 6th Ave.  Hugs, Clare
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sunny Walker 
  To: OE ; Dialogue 
  Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:18 AM
  Subject: [Oe List ...] Fwd: Life Does Not Move In One Direction


  I've recently run into Samantha Bennet whose poetry (e.g. In praise of the capable, An ode to the grumpy) is often directed at women who do too much (yes, you know who you are! I'm happy to send these if you want).



  I found the bit on time below as moving as time itself.


  Sunny
  It's still a sunny, warm, cloudless Colorado morning - best to be out in God's world rather than here in front of our computers!





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  From: "Samantha Bennett" <Samantha_Bennett at theorganizedartistcompany.com>
  To: sunwalker at comcast.net
  Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 8:53:14 AM
  Subject: Life Does Not Move In One Direction





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        Dear Sunny, 


        Life Does Not Move In One Direction          

        We love the story of life as a road. (Success is a ladder. Time is ever marching forward.) 

        But we know it's not true. 

        We are forever on shifting sands, sliding forward and backward and sideways and diagonally in our thinking, our feeling, our learning and our lives. Time swirls about us endlessly; effortlessly sweeping us back to That Day in the Third Grade...That Picnic by the Lake...That Long and Horrible Night...no, certainly time is the most unreliable of all the unreliables. 

        If we think of our lives as being linear, we cheat ourselves out of the fullness of our experience. 

        Plus, it's that foolish linear thinking that leads to self-immolating thoughts like, "I should be more successful by now" and "Look, that person is more successful than I am." We know these thoughts are lies, too, but if you only measure by the clock it is all too easy to slip those lies into your pocket and carry them around as part of your belief about yourself. 

        The more we learn about our art (our love), the less we know. 

        The longer we live on this earth, the more the years seem to pass in a day. 

        As our fortunes rise and fall, the more we recognize that money and status are no more accurate a marker of success than a new crop of tomatoes or a big hug from an eight-year old. 



        Today, challenge yourself to notice the ways in which your life is a gyre, moving in many looping directions all at once. And how that is good and meet. 



        The world needs your art. 



        Yours, 

        Sam. 




        Samantha Bennett
        The Organized Artist Company

        Email: Samantha_Bennett at TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com
        Website: http://www.TheOrganizedArtistCompany.com
        Cell: 818-468-0540 

         Love the poems? Click HERE to get your copy of "By The Way, You Look Really Great Today: Selected Poems by Samantha Bennett" (Buy three, get one free - makes a fabulous gift!)



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