What Do You Have Energy For?
By David Drake
I was reminded the other day of this Native American poem as I sat with the notion of what it takes to create a legacy. In this age of relentless change and what Linda Stone called “continuous partial attention”, how can we sufficiently gather and focus our energy and use our power wisely?
Where do you notice the most energy bubbling up in your life? What keeps asking for your deeper attention and courage‚Äîamidst the din of all the daily demands and distractions? If you need some inspiration, watch this short clip. Sometimes all it takes is to just get started…
Let us know where you are drawing your “sacred circles of commitment.”
Creation does not take place
Where there is a scattering and dissipation of energies.
Creation requires a gathering and focusing
Of your power within a circle of commitment —
Like a seed, and egg, a womb or marriage.Consider wisely the ways in which you would
Use your power and then around those ways
Draw the sacred circle of commitment.In the warm atmosphere of that circle, the power
Of love builds like a storm above the wet summer prairie
Until suddenly the circle can hold no more
And explodes in the conception of the new.
This fire is more powerful than any one of you.
White Buffalo Calf Woman, “Return of the Bird Tribe”
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