4. Writing

Prose, Rhythm and Rhyme

“Sesheta Speaks”

“Writing is making sense of life.” Nadine Gordimer

“A very happy birthday to a very special soul – your peace and serenity perfume the atmosphere wherever you are – you are a traveling oasis who brings rest and refreshment to those of us lucky enough to find ourselves in your midst...May all your days be filled with the awareness that your life is blessed and that you are a great blessing!
J. Lebow

Greta, you are our Aurora Borealis:
Inviting and dangerous and beautiful –
as many edges (waterfalls, doorways) are.
Bravo and thank you
A. Brown

Support for Sesheta’s Writing Pathway

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” Maya Angelou

“To write is to taste life twice.” Anais Nin

“I continue to create because writing is a labor of love, …an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.” Alice Childress

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation- one of the ways I practice the commitment to explore bodies of knowledge for the usable wisdoms they yield…Writing is one of the ways I do my work in the world.” Toni Cade Bambara

“Attitude of Gratitude”

Thank you, God, for opening my heart this day.

Thank you for making everything brand new again.

Thank you for the pressure, and the energy for the emergence and the birth pangs.

Thank you for the chance to go slipping into Silence and finding there—The Presence.

Thank you, Spirit, for lifting me on the wings of time beyond any ideas of what is.

Thank you, Life, for tapping me on my heart and catching me unawares.

Thank you for whispering to my soul before the face of my fathers and the memory of my mothers were known.

Thank you for abiding in me.

Thank you for catching me when I fall and for remembering me when I forget to.

Thank you for this space to rest in.

Thank you, God, for the transitory torment that makes the prevailing peace so sweet.