I’m really grateful for this space that you’ve created Kaitlin, to connect through our words, ideas, art in community. My heart is longing to find ways to continue beyond this month of May, thank you for this gift.
HI friends. I love today's prompt. I start my offering with words from Proverbs 4:7, from the First Testament, the Wisdom Writings from the Jewish tradiiton.
Wisdom
“The beginning of wisdom is:
Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.”
The beginning of wisdom and its
Complex and dynamic union with insight.
It has little to do with intellect, SAT, LSAT, GRE or poll numbers.
Wisdom is all about the base, the center, the source.
Get wisdom:
Be present in this precious moment.
Be thoughtful in word, action and response.
Have compassion for your kindreds;
See with your heart as well as your eyes.
Witness to a world that can be,
when all our dreams of harmony coincide.
Be a healer for the nations, your communities, and your home.
Love justice, live kindness, be humble and gentle.
Look behind as well as ahead,
so that none are left behind.
Treat all beings with respect, dignity and peace.
Sustain the earth as if it will continue to be home to humans
For a thousand more centuries.
Shine and show loving kindness to all creatures,
to your beloveds, to your adversaries, and to yourself.
Open the circle wider and wider as we see the beauty in all life
And all our sacred identities.
Open up to the possibility that you are wrong;
Hold gently to beliefs and shed dogma and doctrine.
Treat all life as sacred, and all passings as moments to mourn and grieve.
This resonates so deeply. Therapy, lavender plants, gray hair, and stretch marks are all part of my story as well. Thank you for the reminder that it is all wisdom.
I love this word!!! Sophia, Goddess of wisdom, woman wisdom, source of knowledge and light! Thank you Kaitlin for the wisdom you show in creating this space!
Motherly Wisdom
There is little
that cannot be
mended in
kitchen chairs
and teapots.
I’m really grateful for this space that you’ve created Kaitlin, to connect through our words, ideas, art in community. My heart is longing to find ways to continue beyond this month of May, thank you for this gift.
Wisdom is a sense
attuned to
ethereal spaces
in-between, beneath
liminal, radical
Wisdom is penetrating
invisible energy
buried roots
intangible feelings
sounds of silence
Wisdom is a window
into hidden nature
insight, intuition
into what really
matters
Wisdom is serenity
filtered, unclouded
knowing, innate
born into
nature
Wisdom
Does wisdom come with age,
Like wool gathered through the years?
Does wisdom come with heartache,
Grown in the heart's soil and watered with tears?
Does wisdom come from God,
Given only to those who pray?
Or does wisdom come to anyone,
Who can listen, and learn, and then give it away?
Karri Temple Brackett
May 27, 2023
https://themarvelousandthemundane.com/2023/05/27/wisdom-2/
I fling open my soul to the mysteries of the world
Open the shutters to the vast expanse of the universe
Let the light stream on in
Illuminating
Everything
I throw away certainty and rightness and crack myself wide
Like a hatching bird
Not yet ready to fly
I am like a tree, rooted
I am like a leaf, falling
This is where wisdom lives,
In surrender
Wisdom doesn’t ask it simply reveals
Itself to those who dare to feel the feels
Wisdom comes in the tiniest of ways
The land, the flowers the streams, the bays
Don’t look for it outside the natural spaces
For tender wisdom will be found in other places
Rather, seek it in our Land and in your Heart
Find it within your own Poetry and your own Art
Wisdom is not something that is granted or conquered
nor about how many years one has lived
Forged with every conscious and intentional step
it’s through living an examined life
Within the battle worn, frayed
frenzied storms of living
Inside the sweet tender moments
where vulnerability opens like an unfurling fern
Present with our ever-changing emotional waters
as their fluidity ebbs and flows
Being willing to fall down, to get up
and to repeat this again and again
Not just by surviving or existing but
contemplating each encounter
releasing judgments and preferences
fully meeting life as it is
Letting the deeper understandings
arise, bubbling up from our cavernous belly
To simply wander, to wonder
as a rewilding, untaming, returning home
For this greater mystery cannot ever be solved
And right there…is quiet…joy!
Like the porno judge claiming
he knows it when he sees it,
I know it when I hear it.
and I will try to give it
the silent native chew it surely deserves.
Wisdom sharpens wisdom.
Anything else is just owls.
or a quartet of teeth.
Wisdom is a gift from my grandmothers as I become more like them each year.
Wisdom is listening to my sons who are young and wise, too.
Wisdom is right here between young and old- neither and both, wise and new.
Wisdom is ageless.
I've been called
wise beyond my years
more than once,
but the older I get,
the less I believe that
wisdom comes from age.
After all, what could be wiser
than a child instinctively
digging their hands into the earth,
splashing in the water,
laughing when they are happy,
crying when they are sad,
eating when they are hungry,
stopping when they are full,
moving when they are restless,
resting when they are tired,
reaching out when they need comfort,
stomping their feet at injustice,
and deciding everyone they see
should be their friend?
Sometimes I feel wise,
Some days I act otherwise,
Ridiculous and impulsive,
Brash and reckless.
Apparently, I am,
Still learning,
To be wise.
HI friends. I love today's prompt. I start my offering with words from Proverbs 4:7, from the First Testament, the Wisdom Writings from the Jewish tradiiton.
Wisdom
“The beginning of wisdom is:
Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.”
The beginning of wisdom and its
Complex and dynamic union with insight.
It has little to do with intellect, SAT, LSAT, GRE or poll numbers.
Wisdom is all about the base, the center, the source.
Get wisdom:
Be present in this precious moment.
Be thoughtful in word, action and response.
Have compassion for your kindreds;
See with your heart as well as your eyes.
Witness to a world that can be,
when all our dreams of harmony coincide.
Be a healer for the nations, your communities, and your home.
Love justice, live kindness, be humble and gentle.
Look behind as well as ahead,
so that none are left behind.
Treat all beings with respect, dignity and peace.
Sustain the earth as if it will continue to be home to humans
For a thousand more centuries.
Shine and show loving kindness to all creatures,
to your beloveds, to your adversaries, and to yourself.
Open the circle wider and wider as we see the beauty in all life
And all our sacred identities.
Open up to the possibility that you are wrong;
Hold gently to beliefs and shed dogma and doctrine.
Treat all life as sacred, and all passings as moments to mourn and grieve.
Continue to tell and hear the stories.
Read these words and let them go.
Hold me in your heart for a little while longer,
And then in heartfelt joy, let me go.
Walk with the power of beauty,
May Love always be your guiding light.
Wisdom
.
The wisest of all
Is taking a step back, not
Twisting up your truth.
.
.
In a time where
People vye hard for the top spot,
Or even where we fight so hard inside
To be our best,
I must be honest with myself,
Take a chill pill and a step back,
And turn to the wisdom
Of the wise who came before me.
.
“No need to take life too seriously” -
It’s a constant creation
And you won’t miss your chance.
There’s goodness left for you,
And you need do nothing for it.
.
“Just listen” -
To your body and your heart.
We created ourselves foolproof,
Keeping the internal navigation systems
Saved up after every trip close
So that we could start this life already found.
.
“Enjoy the damn thing” -
After all the creating, after all of the “work,”
Your world is a gift waiting for your celebration.
If pleasure comes from within,
It’s your responsibility to unlock it for us all.
.
So go for it.
Start the party.
Don’t think about it.
wisdom
is many things
the difference between
knowledge and wisdom
knowledge is knowing
a tomato is a fruit
wisdom is knowing
not to put a tomato in a fruit salad
as if wisdom the
experience of playing with knowledge
there is a spirit of wisdom
that artists possess
from learning and
practicing their craft
there is a wisdom tradition
from scriptures
and holy people
imparting words
gently so
quieted minds
can absorb them
there is a wisdom
that creation knows
and we don't
but sacred texts
show us
if we dare to see
wisdom is more than
being smart
as many
without wisdom
will proclaim too loudly
wisdom is
eternal and yet situational
universal and yet contextual
beyond us and yet within us
but for the latter
we need the courage
to empty ourselves
to be vulnerable
to be silent
so we can notice it
then we need
to be willing
to be wrong
to make mistakes
to experience the uncomfortable
within us and out in the world
so we can gain wisdom
what good is wisdom
if there is no compassion
together? divine!
This resonates so deeply. Therapy, lavender plants, gray hair, and stretch marks are all part of my story as well. Thank you for the reminder that it is all wisdom.
I love this word!!! Sophia, Goddess of wisdom, woman wisdom, source of knowledge and light! Thank you Kaitlin for the wisdom you show in creating this space!