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Upon Waking: Compassion for the Elders (a not-poem)

6/14/2020

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Sometimes, I awaken,
And don't know

If I'm really awake.


Do you ever get that feeling

Of being disoriented

As you trip on the divide 

Between here and there?


I hate it, that feeling

Of disorientation;

It terrifies me,

Reminds me of The Alzheimer's,

And of The Going Mad,

And of how we don't really know what we don't know,

Or where we are,

Or when we are.


Catherine Anne Kilbride

May 25, 2020

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    Catherine is an educator, interfaith spiritual director, and retreat facilitator who delights in the ordinariness of her life in Ottawa, Canada. In her work, she draws on the riches of the mystical traditions, especially those of her ancestors, the Christian Celts. Catherine thinks the greatest prayer she can offer to God and the world is to look and listen for the Divine Spark in each and all, and in every moment.

    About the sacred now

    In writing the sacred now, ​my hope is that together, we'll enter together into the sacredness of our everyday lives - wherever and whatever they may be. 

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