While I was in Antigonish at St.FX, our advisors in the Adult Ed. program knew how important symbols were in our learning experience. In front of my desk in my apartment, I have the various things we were given: poems, notes, a special pin, our little handmade telescope, and our masks. These symbols help remind me of all the important moments we shared together as a class, around that table for 3 weeks. So many discussions, laughs, tears, challenges, reflections, and new perspectives shared. Before I left Antigonish to come back to Beijing (when in my life did I think I would be saying that...anyways), our advisors gave us each beautiful little notes. The other day I just happened to put it out of the envelope, and for the first time I looked on the back, and there was a poem...and I wanted to share it with you, as it inspired me...
Living Wide Open: Landscapes of the Mind
I will not die and unlived life
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me
to make me less afraid
more accessible
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance, to live
so that which came to me as a seed
goes to the next as a blossom
and that which came to me as blossom
goes on as fruit.
(Dawna Markova. 2000. I will not die an unlived life: Reclaiming purpose and passion)
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