Wislawa Szymborska: Life-While-You-Wait

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December 15, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. - Barbara Brown Taylor - Wislawa Szymborska: Life-While-You-Wait From Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Life-While-You-Wait" is "-- a bittersweet ode to life's string of unrepeatable moments, each the final point in a fractal decision tree of what-ifs that add up to our destiny, and a gentle invitation to soften the edges of the heart as we meet ourselves along the continuum of our becoming." BrainPickings offers Amanda Palmer's captivating reading of the poem here. { read more } Be The Change What are you waiting for and how is your life shaped by the waiting? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Being Resilient During Coronavirus Children, Anger Control and Inuit Wisdom I Wish My Teacher Knew... Bye Bye Plastic Bags Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living A Life 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing Three Methods for Working with Chaos The Understory: Life Beneath the Forest Floor DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 245,911 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More