What to Remember When Leaving

Written by Tayria Ward on May 21, 2010

This is my last day in Mexico after a glorious week. I’m trying not to project myself forward into plans and worries and mail and catch up, but to be here savoring every moment left. The advice of David Whyte in his poem “What to Remember When Waking” applies to a

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Belonging

Written by Tayria Ward on February 27, 2010

Last night I read something that has shaken me all the way down to my deepest root. It is two lines out of a poem by David Whyte:

Give up all other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Is that what we all search for, “the world to which we belong?”

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