Complete the Circle

Every beginning has an ending
for it to be the beginning of something.

Otherwise, everything is happening
all at once and there is nothing
that needs evolving or resolving:

no worn wallpaper that needs
to be stripped from the walls
before we paint our life in new colors;

Excerpt from my forthcoming book, The Undiscovered Country: How to Live In Your Own Heartland soon to be released.

The coronavirus puts a profound watermark on our time, a backdrop in which everything is either measured or consumed. This time will mark the ending and beginning of much in our lives. It also offers a chance to bring some projects to completion or to begin ones that have been pushed aside by the normal traffic of your life.

What is your relationship to endings and beginnings? What is ending and what is beginning for you at this time?

What might it mean to you to arrive, with all the great distance traveled, right where you started, except that now everything is at home in you?

no paradise we must find
or dream we must fulfill
before we fall in love with our life.

Yet, we all go out in search of ourselves,
leaving our undiscovered country behind,
getting lost somewhere in the middle,
and then detained by our own customs.

All the while driven by an ancient compulsion
to complete the circle because every ending
has a beginning for it to be the ending
of something.

The circle completes, arriving,
with all the great distance traveled,
right where we started, except that now
everything is at home in us.

Please share your thoughts
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