15/21: (Thursday) Today marks 15 days along the journey of the three weeks where the crack in everything beckons a polishing the luminal darkness of this time. Yearning emerges for a listening presence amidst apparent absence of the universe the more you meditate on this time and place of your life. Such contemplation of this absent presence is expressed here Benjamin Shevili’s recent collection, Poems to Yova (2022):

Who shall give a listen according to bitterness
I won’t be able to chirp like a bird
I fly & take off you will not remember me
I began today once again shall I return tomorrow

Questions for self-reflection:

1. Why do I feel the need to be listened to most in my “bitterness” and suffering?
2. How could this need to be listened to and remembered also emerge beyond “bitterness” and within the sweetness that tempers it?