I found this poem again in a box of prompts I keep for my writing workshops. Perfect timing and a wonderful reminder that we can start again at any time. With journaling. With relationships. With habits. With anything. Everything. Movement begets movement. Impetus Kathleen Lynch You must change your life. ~ Rilke Begin anywhere: sleep on the other side of the bed tonight. Tomorrow walk as though your head is filled with helium & your spine the string that holds it to the earth. Fill a gallery with something you have not yet made. Name your show I Promise. Buy a large piece of blue paper. The shade should be vast and deep and remind you of nothing. Roll it carefully and carry it home on the bus cradled in your arm. Try not to pretend it is your child. Don’t cry, but if you must don’t stop. Tears are only water and salt. You felt this way once before when you first moved from fluid to air. It is no one’s fault you are more than halfway there. Surely you know that and are grateful to have come so far. Just go. Just keep going
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