{"id":8989,"date":"2018-10-20T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2018-10-20T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:47:46","slug":"letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8989","title":{"rendered":"LETTING GO…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of: ‘Letting Go’ by petraboekhoff – Pixabay
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LETTING GO\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

I have two friends that had the fear-filled drowning experience as very young boys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 each in their own way. One of them actually went under, lungs filled with water, heart stopped, but the spark of life hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely extinguished, and rescuers brought him back. The other boy was swimming with others and swept out by currents way stronger than he, and his would-be rescuer could only bring his friend back to shore in the rough and choppy water\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so the rescuer told him not to panic, to float with the current even though he would be carried further out, but once free of the pull of the current, he would be able to float and swim into shore at his own pace. And that was how he survived. They each felt a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcrelinquishing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in their own way\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 LETTING GO\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 of the paralyzing fear of dying.<\/p>\n

One of the boys grew to write the poem below\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and to me, it points to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcletting go<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of what we cling to in each instant, in moments, in memories, fearful dreams, or desires\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we are habitually forward-directed, an urge learned to engage time as infants, reaching for that next object. LETTING GO\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the feel of unclenching, relaxing the hold\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is actually available in every moment, like the surface tension of a bubble that opens to all that is outside itself… as it pops. It is freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it is opening beyond the contents of our own self-enclosure\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

AT SEA AT LAST
\n\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

Fashionable as drifting Autumn leaves,
\nSlow swirls of light spun
\nDesperados
\n Doing up the evening like Astaire
\n Does on a vast starlit stage
\n Before a full house of swells,<\/p>\n

Everything at last is a crumbling
\nConstruct of a fading mind,<\/p>\n

A child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clinging to the edge
\nOf what he thinks
\nIs the local plunge,<\/p>\n

But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not,
\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a wooden plank,
\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left
\n Of a boat sunk just recently,<\/p>\n

And he is not as he thinks himself to be,
\nFor all the babble,
\nFor all the cracked and cracking memories,<\/p>\n

He is himself alone,
\n A raw breath, a throat clutch, done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LETTING GO\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I have two friends that had the fear-filled drowning experience as very young boys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 each in their own way. One of them actually went under, lungs filled with water, heart stopped, but the spark of life hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,115,40],"tags":[115,40,69],"class_list":["post-8989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-opening","category-poetry","tag-opening","tag-poetry","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}