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This is not a fit way for a grown-up to live. Let me be clear. We campaigned, we voted, we lost, and it sucks. But at this moment , we are not at personal risk of being bullied, harassed, publicly maligned, physically threatened, denied opportunity, or deported. We need to get over it so we can get on with it — the never-ending work of embodying and enacting love, truth, and justice.

For me, this begins with withdrawing energy from ranting and raving, and reinvesting that energy in face-to-face forms of solidarity with people such as:. These are big and daunting problems. The big stuff is beyond my reach, at least at the moment. In my post-election funk, I even began to feel down about Thanksgiving. They helped a guy more than twice their age get clear on next steps. While with them, I had a vision. These next-generation change agents face serious obstacles. But given their big minds, wide-open hearts, massive moral imaginations, and boundless energy for love, truth, and justice, these young leaders and activists — and kindred spirits of all ages — will overcome.

Read the full poem here. Written by Parker J. New Here? New to On Being? Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down. Let the coolness of autumn and the breathing, blowing wind test its adherence to endurance, let the others fall.

Wait longer than you would, go against yourself, find the pale nobility of quiet that ripening demands, watch with patience as the silhouette emerges and the leaves fall, see it become a solitary roundness against a greying sky, let winter come and the first frost threaten, and then wake one morning to see the breath of winter has haloed its redness with light. David Whyte is an internationally renowned poet and author, and a scintillating and moving speaker.

Behind these talents lies a very physical attempt to give voice to the wellsprings of human identity, human striving and, most difficult of all, the possibilities for human happiness. His talks, to audiences of all persuasions, on everything from literature to leadership, heartbreak to healing; mindfulness to mythology, weave poetry, story and commentary into a moving, almost physical experience of the themes that run through every human life: joy and loss, vulnerability and vitality, courage and despair, beauty and necessary heartbreak.

He draws from hundreds of memorized poems, his own and those of other beloved poets such as Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Keats, Pablo Neruda, Fleur Adcock and the sonnets of Shakespeare. He is the author of ten books of poetry, three books of prose on the transformative nature of work; a widely-acclaimed, best-selling book of essays, and an extensive audio collection.

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