Sand and Pearls

Whenever I become frustrated with work; whenever I want to reach out and shake someone to help them “see”, I try to think of this quote from W. H. Auden’s poem, “the Age of Anxiety” (1948)

We would rather be ruined than changed

We would rather die in our dread

Than climb the cross of the moment

and let our illusions die.

I reminds me how hard change is; with what ferocious veracity we cling to our notions of self and identity.  It reminds me to be gentle.