How to Be
Jen SwanObservations on being human in a world that measures success by what we do
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How to bear the weight of the world
Septembers moody skys
I have struggled to pull words and thoughts together to write here. Still processing the events of the summer, the news cycle interrupts my reflections, again and again. Like millions of others around the globe, I hav...
Opening up to the small miracles
Jester, a master and mentor of rest
With pruning shears in hand, I began a yearly process of cutting dead flower heads. Nearby bumble bees and solitary honey bees linger on the late blossoming flowers, gathering remnants of pollen and nect...
How do we grieve unacknowledged losses?
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“Though we need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts,
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.”
On the Death o...
The discomfort of growth
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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As a...
Beginning again (and again)
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Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening.
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
(From Fo...
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Writing from the east coast of Ireland with mountains and the sea close by. I am an eternal student, preoccupied with how the world works and how we can live simply and wholeheartedly in it.
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