Suzanne Kronisch is in the Thursday night feedback class and was also a participant in the 2010-2011 Memory to Memoir Intensive. She wrote this piece at the Commonweal "Writing Retreat of Your Dreams" in Bolinas this past summer.
We all loved it because Suzanne so beautifully described something so many of us have in short supply. Personally, I felt like I was getting a tour of a foreign country.
:
Patience feels like this:
I can wait.
There's no hurry.
As long as it takes.
When you're ready.
When the time is right.
It's in God's hands.
I'm not in control.
You're not in control.
Let's find out.
Patience feels like this:
It doesn't matter how long it takes.
What gets accomplished is exactly what what was supposed to get accomplished.
We'll start again.
Not a problem.
Totally fine.
I'm in no hurry.
There's nowhere else I'd rather be.
I'm not going anywhere.
I have no agenda.
Patience feels like being.
If it takes the rest of my life it takes the rest of my life.
It'll take as long as it takes.
No worries.
No problem.
My pleasure.
We'll just go back.
We'll just turn around.
Easy.
That's fine.
Can you give me that again?
I want to understand you.
Can you say it another way?
Let's slow down.
Let's not hurry.
I like that about you.
There's no need to change.
Patience feels like this:
No matter how long it takes, that's how long.
Whatever it takes.
It's not about finishing it.
It's about being together,
Doing it,
Enjoying the process.
Patience feels like this:
I'm not trying to change you.
I don't expect from you what you can't do.
Let's see what you can do from where you are right now.
Patience feels like a big, permissive, unhurried opening,
A place where things can only emerge and not be forced or coaxed,
But happen when all the forces are right,
When the karma is ripe,
The conditions are in place
And the space is there.
When you give up hunting, searching, trying,
And it appears in front of you as if a gift,
You know that patience was in play.
Suzanne Kronisch has been cultivating patience for over three decades. The same year she took the first stich of a still-unfinished tapestry she encountered the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education. She has been practicing the refinement of her own embodied awareness and that of others since 1978. Although she also loves to go really fast, Suzanne prefers train travel, in part because it takes forever to get there. She is currently immersed in the process of finding just the right words for her first book, which won't be done anytime soon.
http://www.bodyofknowledge.ws
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