Stories From Women Who Walk

60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: A Gratitude Contemplation

Episode Summary

Contemplating a year to live is not grim but brimming over with comfort, life and gratitude!

Episode Notes

Hello to you listening in Paris, France!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

As many of you know I’m engaged in a year-long course based on Stephen Levine’s well known book, A Year to Live. I think I have some 326 more days of discovering how to live this year as if it were my last. Ironically, it’s not a grim undertaking but one brimming over with life and gratitude.

Much like Merrit Malloy shares in his poem entitled, Epitaph:

Epitaph by Merrit Malloy (published 1985)

“When I die

Give what’s left of me away

To children

And old men that wait to die.

And if you need to cry,

Cry for your brother

Walking the street beside you.

And when you need me,

Put your arms

Around anyone

And give them

What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,

Something better

Than words

Or sounds.

Look for me

In the people I’ve known

Or loved,

And if you cannot give me away,

At least let me live on in your eyes

And not your mind.

You can love me most

By letting

Hands touch hands,

By letting bodies touch bodies,

And by letting go

Of children

That need to be free.

Love doesn’t die,

People do.

So, when all that’s left of me

Is love,

Give me away.”

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Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team

Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts

Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music