One of the many things Naomi taught me is that my life is a poem. At first, this seemed to me just a nice thing to say, that my life was too fragmented and too often meaningless and ordinary to be a poem, but then one day I was just sitting there watching the wind move through the leaves and I knew that something like that wind was moving through me as well. I was a leaf in the wind.
http://www.onbeing.org/program/naomi-shihab-nye-your-life-is-a-poem/8720
http://www.onbeing.org/program/naomi-shihab-nye-your-life-is-a-poem/transcript/8850
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