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About Stumbling, quotes from River Maria Urke & William Stafford
If you stumble, make it part of the dance - River Maria Urke Watching a romantic comedy, "Champagne Problems", a dialogue between two characters caught my attention: -"You'd be crazy to not be feeling crazy right now" -"Thanks. I wanna be more like you. I wanna be fearless in love" -"You think I'm fearless?" -"Mm-hmm" -"I stumble all the time." -"You do?" -"I've just learned to make it part of the dance". Searching for that quote somewhere, I found about River Maria Urke, her

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"You and Art", by William Stafford
Your exact errors make a music that nobody hears. Your straying feet find the great dance, walking alone. And you live on a world where...

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Dec 10, 20181 min read


"Quo Vadis", by William Stafford
Sometimes I choose a cloud and let it cross the sky floating me away. Or a bird unravels its song and carries me as it flies deeper and...

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Dec 2, 20181 min read


"Being a Person", by William Stafford
Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring. Let any season that wants to come here make its own...

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Sep 4, 20181 min read


"Time for Serenity, Anyone?", by William Stafford
I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of mountain air. A sharp reminder hits me: this world is still alive, it stretches out there shivering toward its own creation, and I'm part of it. Even my breathing enters into this elaborate give-and-take, this bowing to sun and moon, day or night. winter, summer, storm, still--this tranquil chaos that seems to be going somewhere. This wilderness with a great peacefulness in it. This motionless turmoil, this everything dance

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Jul 23, 20181 min read


"Cutting Loose", by William Stafford
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing...

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Jun 15, 20161 min read


"You Reading This, Be Ready", by William Stafford
Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened...

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Feb 17, 20161 min read


"The Way it is" by William Stafford
There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. you have...

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Apr 9, 20151 min read


"Why I am Happy" by William Stafford
Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens...

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Mar 7, 20151 min read
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