The Big Picture

by | Apr 20, 2022 | poems, Quotes | 2 comments

Perspective is such a funny thing
It changes depending on how you look at it
We get to feeling like we know it all sometimes
Until we move into another spot
Then we realize there’s all kinds of possibilities
And life is just one big learning process

 

Written while in Luna

From a handmade book composed while in Luna, read aloud during a workshop given at HSU, February 2000

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  1. Russell Stanton

    just as a response here – i have to say life is one big learning process, if (only if) we live it correctly – or in the best way. i mean way too many people place severe limits on how much, at what times, and from whom they will learn things. and that is such a tragedy, while we have the opportunity to keep learning practically every minute of our lives. all of those who decide not to learn so much of what they (or WE) are able to learn, well deserve to be lamented.

    • d smith

      …i don’t think we can know whether another has learned or not. to be truly helpful….i think we need only continually ask ourselves…what have i learned?

      “Until we move into another spot
      Then we realize there’s all kinds of possibilities
      And life is just one big learning process”

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