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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See What Isn’t There, Then Put it There

week 38

See What Isn’t There, Then Put it There

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            1.   Creating and entertaining fantasies is one of the best

                  ways I know to acknowledge what I want!

            2.   It’s a mistake not to know what you want. Some truly

                  may not know and others are embarrassed to say. Wake

                  up. Don’t be embarrassed.

            3.   Suppose you saw The Horse Whisperer starring Robert

                  Redford, and found out you love horses. In a way you

                  never knew.

            4.   So how do you imagine yourself in a life with a horse--

                  even if you’ve seldom been near one?

            5.   Let it fly. Ride one like the wind or nurture a sick one

                  back to life—all in your mind.

            6.   Own the feeling. After all, this is you, what you care

                  about. It’s your creation, bubbled up within. You can’t

                  fake or deny that!

            7.   Make your plan. Write an email. Place your phone call.

                  get in touch with somebody to take the next step. Get to

                  know a horse!

Leaf

Sitting still

in the corner chair

just past dawn

listening—the window

wide open—

buoyant on the birds’ frolics.

One flew in, pecked me

on my left earlobe

and whispered

“come with me.”

I did and she propped me

up on a dew-dropped leaf

to spritely waves

on the morning’s breeze,

whereupon I spent the day,

and when I returned home,

was surprised to hear

my love’s sweet query:

your journey . . . tell me,

how was it?

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

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Get Where You Need to Be

Week 37

Get Where You Need to Be

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            1.   The where of mind and heart may or may not require a

                  naming based on geography.

            2.   It’s possible to cover millions of miles without a single

                  stride.

            3.   It’s the interruption that’s the imperative. What will you jar loose? Shatter,

                  if need be?

            4.   What will you do to face down the scare, the true  

                  claiming and owning what you know rings true for you?

                  Nothing? Be safe?

            5.   Your only safety is leaving what you love, trusting the

                  foreign.

            6.   Your clumsiness, and your pain, even, is your delight; the

                  way to confirm the rightness of your fresh pursuit.

            7.   Who knew till then? Certainly not you: the measure in

                  full of what was wanted.

Travel

Getting new

where

I need to be,

to do new

what

I need to do

interrupts

the normal flow

and jostles

the way I

see myself.

It separates me

from my love

and threads me

into new corners.

It spurs my faith

in departures

and distances.

Who awaits?

What demands?

What will I give

that up to now

has not been sought

and cloaked

inside?

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

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