Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Love after Love


The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at  your own door, in your own mirror;
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here.  Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine.  Give bread.  Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love-letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on you life.

Source:  “Love after love” from Sea grapes by Derek Walcott. (1976)

Seeking to be Creative? Listen with spirit


Wisdom, insight, change and action come not from better thinking, testing and strategising, but from letting go, receiving and listening.

Group creativity appears to exhibit a common spirit revealing itself. The vehicle for receiving this insight or connecting with spirit, is a quality of detached, selfless openness. It is like emptying oneself or creating a vessel for receiving and containing spirit.

Source:  Levine L (1994) Listening with spirit and the art of team dialogue. Journal of organisational change management. 7(1):61-73

New Blog

From today I will be posting on a new site Please link to the new site at  http://shauncoffey.blog/