Conversations that Matter

There are conversations that matter; specific ones that somehow see through us, speak into us, and change us profoundly. For me, those conversations have been, and are, about Faith, the Feminine, and Telling the Truth.

I’m working on a project that invites you into those conversations – with yourself, with me, with others, and with the Divine. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, thoughts about conversation from another woman who has captured me with her imagery, her words, her penned beauty.

The Conversation

A woman moves close:
there is something she wants to say.
The currents take you one direction, her another.
All night you are aware of her presence,
aware of the conversation that did not happen.
Inside it are mountains, birds, a wide river,
a few sparse-leaved trees.
On the river, a wooden boat putters.
On its deck, a spider washes its face.
Years from now, the boat will reach a port by the sea,
and the generations of spider descendants upon it
will look out, from their nearsighted, eightfold eyes,
at something unanswered.

Jane Hirshfield

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