Aug 1, 2006
August 1, 2006
FLUID NEWS
From
C.W. METCALF
Future Fluid Newsletters will address a number of issues and concerns as they arise, or that I hold in common with my clients/subscribers. We will also welcome your stories and observations, which may be included here.
However, as all of my work emphasizes fluidity and Learning To Be Water, and because I am something of a closet poet, this newsletter contains a piece I wrote after the long recovery following my first brain surgery in 1996. During that period, I was literally inundated with images of water from rain to streams and oceans. In the decade since, I have had another brain surgery, four cancers and attendant difficulties. Through it all the discoveries, which revealed themselves to me in the poem below, have helped me understand that water, which is essential to all of existence, was to be my new teacher.
Trappers Creek
A stream filled with micro-life to small to see. I am standing here nothing less than
a visible collection of those same organisms fluid and yet having forgotten I slowly petrify.
In this place I am reminded of a liquid continuity that knows how to flow around, under, between, over and through all obstacles in our path. This is my retreat and our reminder–Learn to be water. Move naturally without fear, embrace each new obstacle as an opportunity to transform and cleanse.
(Written: November 96)