Great Morning Team!
We have an exciting week filled with new beginnings and reunions! However you begin your journey to Better Together, we are excited to see you all in person, and look forward to creating deeper meaningful connections that will go far beyond a virtual screen! Our time together will be a celebration for us all, packed with A LOT of FUN and meaning making! 😊 Through it all, this experience will allow us to learn new things about ourselves and each other, build our skills, and provide us with helpful tools that will “better” us all!
Enclosed is a beautiful poem titled, “For the Traveler”, written by John O’Donohue, who was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. (Click here.) His beautiful words encourage the idea to look inward as we each travel, listening and sensing what surrounds us, and to consider all the possibilities that could transform each of us on our journey ahead.
Wishing you all safe travels and looking forward to an amazing week with you all! 😊
Lori Beth
For the Traveler
Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.
New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.
When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now
To the self you bring along,
Your more subtle eye watching
You abroad; and how what meets you
Touches that part of the heart
That lies low at home:
How you unexpectedly attune
To the timbre in some voice,
Opening in conversation
You want to take in
To where your longing
Has pressed hard enough
Inward, on some unsaid dark,
To create a crystal of insight
You could not have known
You needed
To illuminate
Your way.
When you travel,
A new silence
Goes with you,
And if you listen,
You will hear
What your heart would
Love to say.
A journey can become a sacred thing:
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover
More of your hidden life,
And the urgencies
That deserve to claim you.
May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.
May you travel safely, arrive refreshed,
And live your time away to its fullest;
Return home more enriched, and free
To balance the gift of days which call you.
~ John O’Donohue ~
