2-3/21: (Friday/Saturday) Today marks 2-3 days along the journey of the three weeks where the crack in everything beckons self-refinement. We continue to reconsider how the cracks in everything ultimately lead to the cultivation and revelation of more inner light.

I have explore elsewhere Shevili’s unique mystical voice that re-imagines harata & (Hit)Devekut in Mystical Vertigo with chapter 4: Contrition as a Returning to Devekut: Binyamin Shevili’s Cycle “Contrition” and chapter 8: (Hit)Devekut as Durée of the Godlover Disentangling Intuitive Time in Binyamin Shevili’s “HomosexuELity”.

Digging deeper moment to moment in “this day” we admit “Never easy are the moments” of those places of vulnerability, uncertainty even doubt continue to percolate with these two poems from Shevili’s recent collection, Poems to Yova (2022):
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This day
unbearable
something
terrible
is happening to me
just as for Cain
the sin
of my poem shall I redeem
with nothing-for-
nothing
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Never easy are the moments
these ones never easy
& never expiring

Questions for Self-Reflection:

1. What is your greatest challenge and the greatest gift in living moment to moment “this day”?
2. Amidst “unbearable” moments day to day,, how can your suffering bring you into relation to the emptiness that emerges from “nothing-to-nothing”? What might it teach you about reconnecting to your deeper self?