It Comes in on Little Cat Feet

week 39

It Comes in on Little Cat Feet

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            1.   There are times when you’re part of something far more

                  significant than you know.

            2.   As a group you define your situation and the course of

                  action.

            3.   You lay out the alternatives to meet your challenge and

                  one-by-one assess their consequences.

            4.   Then somebody beside you or across from you—or even

                  from the outside—says or does something that turns

                  all your heads.

            5.   Suddenly your group’s posture changes. New listening,

                  feeling and moving emerge without prompting.

            6.   Recognition and peace settle in.

            7.   The course is clear.

Turning

She was

ruminating

among us.

It bore its way

softly—

as a breaking dawn—

to our small band

and to her

that she hadn’t meant

to do this,

to declare her treasures

and share her travels

so quietly, forcefully.

The keepsakes for us

were the incidentals

of how she came

to be here,

how the events

unfolded—

led to our

little assembly

and why she

believed we

belonged together

in the undertaking—

our agenda withered,

our real work,

begun.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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