I believe in coming full circle and ending up in an entirely different place that feels just as comfortable as the first place.

In the first place, I was driving to church on a Sunday morning while NPR read Rilke poems and suggested we all take a look at the world through a poetic lens instead of a fact and figures lens. (re: oil spills and other environmental disasters)

In the second place, I was sitting on the couch with C. discussing when homeschooling is appropriate and more desirable than public schooling and how the government offers public schooling at home now, suggesting the homeschool-er needs the same curriculum as the public school-er.

In the third place, I was roused out of my comfortable non-confrontational self to say that sometimes we need public school at home and sometimes we don’t.  There is a line in each of our lives that we best watch for, adhere to, etc.  Ideal is not ideal if it doesn’t deal with the current I.

In the last place, I do value facts and figures, but I do so much more easily view the world poetic line by poetic line.  Well, it looks like I’ve come full circle, but I don’t think I arrived in a new place this time.  I guess I will just keep circling.

“I live my life in growing rings
which move out over the things around me.
Perhaps I’ll never complete the last,
but that’s what I mean to try.
I’m circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I’ve been circling thousands years;
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm
or a great song.”

—Rilke