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and mountains of the Mexican border
I've followed the calls of birds
that don't exist into thickets
and up canyons. I'm unsure
if all of me returned.
- Jim Harrison
(illustration LFB)
". . . it’s not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It’s tempting to hide in small rooms built from quick answers." I am prompted to write by this metaphor. Agoraphobia can be disabling. The limitation of movement. Consensus agrees this is generally considered a negative. However, we humans crave quick and uncomplicated answers. We seek the comfort of black and white, the solace of definitive solutions. We want them now. The quick and easy answers generally considered a positive. Yet, life rarely offers such neatly packaged resolutions. Instead, it throws us curveballs, presents us with riddles wrapped in enigmas, and leaves us standing amidst a kaleidoscope of uncertainties. Life gives us unsolvable conundrums. Sheldrake suggests that the easy answers may be disabling to us. Limiting. To be true, we are afraid of getting lost in its infinite possibilities. But what if we embraced the discomfor...
Lovely. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI've been in those thickets and canyons, my father was born in the upper peninsula of Michigan and I lived many years on the Mexican border. And in Mexico probably saw birds that didn't exist. I'd be happy to think I left something of me be behind. Thanks.
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