Forget that dusty worn-out new year’s resolution that you always break: “I’m going to write at least thirty minutes every day.” I’ve made vows like that and consistently broken them. As Marion Zimmer Bradlee has reminded us in Mists of Avalon, “Beware of what you vow, lest you be forsworn.” I know how it feels to be forsworn. Perhaps you also know – and hope to never feel again that withered, that ashamed, that angry with yourself.
Here is Shake the Dust, by Anis Mojgani. A waitress at a local restaurant told me I had to read this poem. I pass her message on to you: Shake the Dust. Tear up your list of resolutions, better yet, don’t begin it. Take the time to read this hymn to those of us who lives on the edges. Please add a few verses to the poem and send them to me for next week’s Breakthrough Writing.
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