The Two Whos

Under all the differences, we all have much more in common….  we breathe in the same air in the same ways, we cry and laugh using the same muscle groups, most for the same reasons.

What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us?

We can refuse the temptation to hate knowing our common humanness, knowing that the sun rises everyday for you and me just the same!  Let’s all move towards the gravity of love and happiness like the earth circling around the firing Sun.

Sunrise

You can
die for it–
an idea,
or the world. People

have done so,
brilliantly,
letting
their small bodies be bound

to the stake,
creating
an unforgettable
fury of light. But

this morning,
climbing the familiar hills
in the familiar
fabric of dawn, I thought

of China,

and India
and Europe, and I thought
how the sun

blazes
for everyone just
so joyfully
as it rises

under the lashes
of my own eyes, and I thought
I am so many!
What is my name?

What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it

whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.

Yun takes a longer route to go home after dropping her kids at school, because she wants to say “Thank you!” to the police woman who is guarding the school crossing.  She also likes to see this woman’s bright smiling face when she greets the children as they cross the street. As she watches, Yun remembers this song that Louis Armstrong sings.

When we see the  world and life through the eyes of gratitude, every word in Louis Armstrong’s song “What a Wonderful World!” rings of truth.

About The Mid-Week Symphony: Since Wednesday is the middle of the week, we have decided to take a moment and have a bit of down time from the writing. Each Wednesday, we would like to bring you a symphony of ideas, a harmony of thoughts, beauty, silliness and all things that make the fullness of life. When we started this blog we wanted it to reflect our entire personalities and interests..and that means yes…. Cece loves the Far Side Cows and Yun loves the mumble jumble philosophical books. Yun and Cece have many varied interests and we would like to share some of them with you each Wednesday.

Often times, parents can try too hard to ’shape’ their children’s life.  Parenthood can become a stressful experience rather than a joyous adventure with our children.  May all  parents keep a broader perspective on children and enjoy parenthood with faith and unconditional love.

Khalil Gibran started his “On Children” from “The prophet”   “They are the sons and daughter’s of life’s  longing for itself.”

On Children Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

“Bye for Now ” From The Two Whos

About The Mid-Week  Symphony: Since Wednesday is the middle of the week, we have decided to take a  moment  and have a bit of down time from the writing.  Each Wednesday, we would like to bring you a symphony of ideas, a harmony of thoughts, beauty, silliness and all things that make the fullness of life.  When we started this blog we wanted it to reflect our entire personalities and interests..and that means yes…. Cece loves  the Far Side Cows and Yun loves the mumble jumble philosophical books.   Yun and Cece have many varied interests and we would like to share some of them with you each Wednesday.

Today, out in the woods

an old tree found me.

It said, “I am you” and a chorus

of whispers

blew by where I shook.

“I am you,” it said

with no words, no words

Big tree, dead huge memory

of itself, collapsing

to feed green shoots

ringing its base…

and the babble of whispers

blew by where I listened.

their small voices hard to hear:

“We, the seemed to say…

We

Are becoming you.”

And the shaking stopped.

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Anonymous-

This poem was given to a son at the passing of his  father.

About The Mid-Week  Symphony: Since Wednesday is the middle of the week, we have decided to take a  moment  and have a bit of down time from the writing.  Each Wednesday, we would like to bring you a symphony of ideas, a harmony of thoughts, beauty, silliness and all things that make the fullness of life.  When we started this blog we wanted it to reflect our entire personalities and interests..and that means yes…. Cece loves  the Far Side Cows and Yun loves the mumble jumble philosophical books.   Yun and Cece have many varied interests and we would like to share some of them with you each Wednesday.

What a title! What a perspective on life’s challenges! We are often bounded by our ‘common’ ways of thinking about what’s good and what’s bad.  When we do this,  we limit ourselves in our ‘common senses’. Let us look at this video with the idea of  ”from no limbs to no limits!”

“Bye for Now” from the Two Whos.  A Special thank you to Stephanie for sending us this powerful video!