November 2, 2011
Seeing the Good in Goodbye
Roger Housden
Catching the winged moment as it flies – to borrow an image from William Blake – is, I believe, a true hello and goodbye all in one: a wholehearted embrace of the way life is showing up for us now, even as we acknowledge and yes, even wave at its leaving. And because I do not always live like this, caught as I sometimes am in the holding on or the pushing away, I turn to poetry to help me in the moments of my need.