On, In, and Around Mondays: Say Yes

"The heart-stopping act of saying yes."

I still remember those words from The Soul Tells a Story. They seem apt for a weekend when I talked about saying no as a path to the soul.

Sometimes the small yes's are all we can say while we are otherwise saying no. I think that's okay. It is a positive step while we are, somehow, otherwise motionless.

Now I am thinking of a Thomas Lux poem which ends...

these things
would be delirious
desiring — say yes — to touch

any part of you, and glad, a fire-fed-
with-solid-oxygen glad — say yes — to be, in turn,
touched by you

And I am thinking of the small yes's I said to beautiful natural things, just with my time and my camera, over the past two days...

Were these things made delirious by my presence? Who knows. But I felt delirious to be touched—oh yes—by them.







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