I tend to cram too much into most days. Especially if they are what I’d consider “good things”. “More must be better” is my non-essentialist mantra when I’m trying to do it all. Judy Brown’s poem Fire articulates the necessity of the space between, to create room to breath. When I’m at my best, I’m prioritizing the space between, transitions and pauses.
Where is too much of a good thing packed in?
What makes a fire burn
-Judy Brown
is space between the logs,
a breathing space.
Too much of a good thing,
too many logs
packed in too tight
can douse the flames
almost as surely
as a pail of water would.
So building fires
requires attention
to the spaces in between,
as much as to the wood.
We only need to lay a log
lightly from time to time.
A fire grows
simply because the space is there,
with openings
in which the flame
that knows just how it wants to burn
can find its way.
Keep going-
Aaron
