one month.
{reverb10 – revisited}
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One month into 2011, what question(s) are you living?
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One month into the new year and pretty much all I have are questions. Questions and questions that fall from my shoulders
all throughout the day, until I end up with a little pile at my feet.
When they get to be too much, I kick them away under the desk, under the bed, out of sight, but the next day, before I’m even finished with my first cup of tea, a new pile starts to form.
Sometimes I try to pull one out, thinking I can find an answer. But they are like pick-up sticks, it’s hard to move one without upsetting the whole pile, and then they’re all going to start rolling around and it will be a big mess all over again. So mostly I just let them be.
Because, of course, some of them are perfectly good questions.
And even when I figure out the answer to one and it dissolves away into dust (you know that’s where dust bunnies come from, right?),
a new one crops up to take its place. Sometimes two new ones.
They multiply like bunnies, too.
But really, that’s okay, because I don’t live the questions…
I live the answers.
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_One month into 2011, what question(s) are you living? Are there any prompts/questions that arose during #reverb10 that are still resonating in your life? Are you living new questions?
February 4th, 2011 at 8:40 am
you know, just when i think you can’t write anything better than what you just wrote, you do. again. “But they are like pick-up sticks, it’s hard to move one without upsetting the whole pile.” inspired & inspiring. and i am loving the bunny.
here’s to living the answers!
February 4th, 2011 at 8:56 am
wonderful
February 4th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Very fun. I love your brevity. Sweet. Love the images of them falling to the floor around your feet and turning into dustbunnies … : ]
February 4th, 2011 at 11:45 am
oh how I love the green in this picture 🙂
February 4th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I’m over from Never True-Tales. Great reminder. Sometimes we are so caught up in the questions that we forget to do the actual living.
February 4th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
What a great response, you’re right about them being like pick up sticks. Have a great weekend.
February 4th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
did you have the words first for this post or the photo ?
my hubby often asks me that….and almost always, it’s the photo i have first and the words fall gently into place as i start to write….
luv that bunny wunny !!!
February 5th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Here..here. To the questions we kick under the desk..and to living the answers! You’re amazing!!!
February 6th, 2011 at 9:29 am
I know you know this one… and I know you love this poet. 🙂
I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them, and the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian Poet, 1875-1926
February 7th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Smiling and nodding – and inspired by your skill, humor and honesty as usual.
February 14th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Oh my gosh…I am a bunny person. And this little guy just tickles my heart! So adorable!!!!
And your words are so fitting.