There’s an image and Adrienne Rich poem I posted five years ago that I keep thinking about lately. They fit with finding a new narrative for this decade that’s well upon us now, and with Kelly Corrigan in her video daring each of us to suspend reality and step through the door that will make us express our true ambitions… and also with a Mary Oliver poem (The Journey) Swirly Girl Christine read to me while we stood in a cave in Petra last week. (How often does that happen?!)
They’re all about doors, choices, picking a trajectory, stepping into what’s next and new. The words keep playing in my head, “Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. … It is only a door.” Are you on the precipice of something new, too? Enjoy!
my friend Lori Wostl & I happened upon this door in Gandria, Switzerland May 2006
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
-Adrienne Rich
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Love this.