Thank you, thank you, thank you, Rick. Love it. This means so much to me. (You mean so much to me).
I am about to get onto a full day author's retreat with Jack Canfield, around the book I am writing, and have been writing, so I don't have a long time to "be with" or respond to, your comment. I just have to say, I LOVE everything you say here, and I am so happy the post landed with you the way that it did.
Your whole article is a wind of inspiration. First, the artistic collaboration process is fantastic and your story about it makes me want to arrange something like this in my own community. Especially the blind matching part and surprise you experienced of who had selected your poem. Second, the rattling shake of generous alarm that sounds out in your poem . . . is like literary smelling salts for the sleeping soul. All in all . . . Gale force winds.
“…a lesson for our times. It's wise to remain resilient and unattached to anything, viewing what seems to be a breakdown as an unexpected surprise, and trusting that we, as a species, are learning and evolving along the way, no matter how challenging the path may be.”
Amba, this drops me into the water I will be swimming in next week with you. 🙏❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Rick. Love it. This means so much to me. (You mean so much to me).
I am about to get onto a full day author's retreat with Jack Canfield, around the book I am writing, and have been writing, so I don't have a long time to "be with" or respond to, your comment. I just have to say, I LOVE everything you say here, and I am so happy the post landed with you the way that it did.
Wow, very cool. I hope that lights a spectacular additional fire under your momentum to share more of your wisdom Amba.
It did! It was a spectacular day. Thank you, Rick.
Your whole article is a wind of inspiration. First, the artistic collaboration process is fantastic and your story about it makes me want to arrange something like this in my own community. Especially the blind matching part and surprise you experienced of who had selected your poem. Second, the rattling shake of generous alarm that sounds out in your poem . . . is like literary smelling salts for the sleeping soul. All in all . . . Gale force winds.
Thanks for the write up Amba. Collaboration takes things to a new level.
“…a lesson for our times. It's wise to remain resilient and unattached to anything, viewing what seems to be a breakdown as an unexpected surprise, and trusting that we, as a species, are learning and evolving along the way, no matter how challenging the path may be.”
Amba, this drops me into the water I will be swimming in next week with you. 🙏❤️
Exactly! Those are the lessons we are being given to learn; they are our "required curriculum," as Ram Das used to say.
I, too, am looking forward to our "Joy of Being" depth of conversation.