Movement

Moving through life

Moving through greed


Movement restricted

Movement freed


Let’s not pretend 

We don’t know the deal


We’re gluttons for stuff

Neglecting what’s real.


Moving through life

Your unique pace

Calling upon source

Eternal grace


Point your body

Towards a new plan


One less pent up

Tall you stand


Move with meaning

To the light of understanding


An easy pace

One less demanding


Making better choices

New motivation


Stimulate and inspire

Divine creation.

Tricia Schwaba, 2025
art source: Anon

EB White's Reply to a Distressed Man --- A Lesson For These Troubled Times

In 1973, more than two decades after a young woman wrote to Albert Einstein with a similar concern, one man sent a distressed letter to E.B. White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985), lamenting that he had lost faith in humanity. The beloved author, who was not only a masterful letter-writer but also a professional celebrator of the human condition and an unflinching proponent of the writer’s duty to uplift people, took it upon himself to boost the man’s sunken heart with a short but infinitely beautiful reply, found in Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (public library) — the wonderful collection based on Shaun Usher’s labor-of-love website, which also gave us young Hunter S. Thompson on how to live a meaningful life.

Dear Mr. Nadeau:

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Sincerely,

E. B. White

From the Marginalian, Maria Popova

ENOUGH

We’re not one of yours, we are not who you are

Ones seeking riches, leaving trash in your wake

You get what you want, you toss it aside

Then claim that the poor take and take

I would argue it is you with your investments & gold

That take and take but remain

In the mindset of lack, in the slime of excess

Laying on the rebellious the whole of the blame

The time is now, we have come to the bend

When your money and excess breaks down

Nature is angry at those at the helm

She holds no mercy for the rich side of town.


Today is the day, now is the time

We say ENOUGH! and gracefully rise

We do no harm but take no shit

Our strength - open hearts and minds

Tricia Schwaba, 9/2025

Recalibration Moments--

Profound moment where life takes a drastic turn, we being thrust into a long anticipated life change or catapulted by circumstance into what feels like the unknown, when in actuality we are called to return to our true selves.

These monumental life changes imminently shift our energetic template, bringing flow where there was stagnation and calm where there was chaos. We being pulled towards our essential, authentic selves are thrust into a discomfort that is inevitably uncomfortable physically (why wouldn’t it be?) but on which our spirit energy thrives and expands, like a long awaited deep breath and stretch after being confined in a small space. 

Shedding the old pattern we sit in the unknown, feeling ourselves in a new orbit, one more genuinely suited to who we are, invited to flow with the divine instead of resisting, retracting or recoiling due to long-held fear. It is a profound reset, with grace and daring leading us to a more joyful, less complicated way of being. 

Tricia Schwaba, 9/2025