Good and Words Better than Mine: Working Humility: Poet Ada Limon

. . . You there standing in the crowd

I’m not proud. The stove

can’t boast of the meal. . .

Ada Limon:  excerpted from the poem The Noisiness of Sleep from the book Bright Dead Things

The poet can say in one short line what I can’t say in one whole page.  

Just a few good words

We are in a time when our leader with all his talk of greatness is boasting credit for a meal prepared by his esteemed ancestors.  His only job was to keep the meal warm.  Our only job is to change the fuel if the meal keeps cooling down.  Today is Sunday so pray for humility and rest for energy.  We go to work again on Monday.

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Having spent my career in human services and organization/systems change, I have come to recognize both the futility of pure anger and the need for a grounded, ethical, moral base for making personal and public decisions that are based on a mature sense of “good”. This website and the content of this project (The Good Decision) are a public service for all who seek more coherent personal lives and a future for future generations in a democracy.
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