Events & News (05/11/24)
A life of undergoing
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Lakol Wicoun, by Lydia Whirlwind Soldier
An Antonio Machado poem I heard Robert Bly read about 30 years ago.
The wind one brilliant day
called to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
‘In exchange for this jasmine odor
I’d like the odor of all your roses.’
‘I have no roses. All the flowers
in my garden are dead.’
‘Then I’ll take the waters of the fountain
and the withered petals.’
The wind left. I wept. I said to my soul:
‘What have you done with the garden
that was entrusted to you?’