It’s the new year - 2025

Found this great poem by David Whyte called Start Close In. It definitely struck something in me and needed to make sure to save it. What better way that on the first day of the new year!= on my blog.

I do hope to create more art…I find myself going in and out of wanting to create and I know I just need to place pen to paper and do it…not for any reason other than just to create!

Start Close In

Start close in,
don't take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don't want to take.

Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way to begin
the conversation.

Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people's questions,
don't let them
smother something
simple.

To hear
another's voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes an
intimate private ear
that can
really listen
to another.

Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don't follow
someone else's
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don't mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don't take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don't want to take.


-from David Whyte: Essentials