your daily rock : create spaciousness

April 25, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

We need to breathe.

In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard talked about spaciousness by invoking the poet Rilke: “Rilke wrote,” Bachelard recounts, “‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”

Clear something out. Give something you have loved to someone who needs in their life now what it represented to you then.

Clear the space in order to grow, like those trees Rilke speaks about.

Let go of 37 things today: objects, stories, limiting beliefs, grudges, socks with no mates. Make a list and count them up, to 37. Breathe in the new space you have created.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.