Wide enough to keep you looking
Open enough to keep you moving
Dry enough to keep you honest
Prickly enough to make you tough
Green enough to go on living
Old enough to give you dreams
by Gary Snyder
A grateful earth poem by the “poet laureate of Deep Ecology” Gary Snyder, with the invitation and reminder to look up and out, and connect with the wide and the open, the dry and prickly, green and old blessing that is our earth. For whatever is going on in our lives, it’s made possible and hopefully well bearable by the earth we live on. Let’s keep looking and dreaming…
Photo by Joe Cook on Unsplash
Author: Kristine Mackenzie-Janson
Kristine has been practising Tibetan Buddhism since 2000, and spent four years working and practising meditation on Holy Isle, Scotland. She has trained extensively with Rob Nairn and has been teaching mindfulness and compassion as a lead tutor for the Mindfulness Association since its early days. She offers eight week courses and drop-in sessions near her home in Edinburgh and mindfulness supervision both in person and by phone. Kristine is also a qualified art therapist, having earned her BA (Hons) degree in 2004 at the Hogeschool Leiden in Holland.
