The story begins
riverrun
a near endless
flowing of words and thrum
seeming to say; run madly, dance
playfully,
flow baby flow
for too soon we return
from whence we come
the mysterious
thing ending
riverrun.
This is my amateur ode to James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. An innovative book that one should really experience for themselves.
It spoke to me of one of life's central characteristics, flow. We can always depend on our lives to keep moving, changing, flowing onward even when we might wish it otherwise.
The Taoists often use water as a metaphor for conveying how best to conduct ourselves. They encourage us to 'flow like water' because to get hung up on things is to risk spiritual stagnation.
We need to flow with the challenges and around the obstacles that will inevitably present themselves. We need to maintain our sense of humour, inner solidarity and calm, if we want to experience a greater degree of freedom, wellbeing and inner peace.
Life, at the end of the day, is a gamble. We can only play the cards we've been dealt as well as we are able and let the rest go.
Flow baby flow!
