This is wonderful. In Anishinaabe culture, we say to live an Anishinaabe life is to make every footstep a prayer. When I teach my poetry workshops, I speak of that, then describe how poetry, and its commitment to attention, means that living a poet's life is to make every footstep a poem. Which is really the same thing, isn't it? Regardless, it all boils down to attention.
So lovely. What a perfect invocation for every day. It may be the only thing I feel certainty about--that God's nature has to be wild and the nature of prayer our noticing of it. Thank you, Heidi!
This is wonderful. In Anishinaabe culture, we say to live an Anishinaabe life is to make every footstep a prayer. When I teach my poetry workshops, I speak of that, then describe how poetry, and its commitment to attention, means that living a poet's life is to make every footstep a poem. Which is really the same thing, isn't it? Regardless, it all boils down to attention.
So lovely. What a perfect invocation for every day. It may be the only thing I feel certainty about--that God's nature has to be wild and the nature of prayer our noticing of it. Thank you, Heidi!