Retreat

Gentle Thunder sharing Castle Lake with 'Dragonfly', Mt. Shasta, California

Retreat

9/26/09

It may seem counter

to common sense society

born around work ethic

Protestant ideals and more,

that when stressors multiply

the cure is opposite,

letting go manufactured need

for premature decision making

not having all information

or burdened by expectations,

assumptions, forgetting the wisdom

of loving 'what is',

embracing and 'being it',

seeing past illusory permanence

situations given exaggerated importance

where leaving things alone,

all the detailed projects

on long priority list,

allows for new thinking

when settling into ease

discovering everything can wait

while paddling mountain lake

blessed by dragonfly medicine

reminding of veil between,

what seems real isn't

yet peace, joy, love,

find substance in retreat.