Halcyon-The Beach House at Blue Water Bay, Weskus, South Africa

23/08/2023

04/12/2021

30/12/2020

TIME LEFT ALONE

Tired of land,
we open ourselves
to oceans,
tired of time
we give back
all that we’ve taken,

tired of ourselves
we open ourselves
to ourselves at last,

sensing the waves
and great abyss
of the sea beyond,
the ocean stretching on sand

and the long view on the still sea
that leads to another life.

…

From ‘Time Left Alone’
‘River Flow : New and Selected Poems’
©David Whyte and Many Rivers Press
https://davidwhyte.com/collections/books-cards-and-audio/products/river-flow-new-selected-poems
…

The Long View.
Photo © David Whyte
Mukilteo Ferry WA State
December 22nd 2017
..

The celebrations of the holiday season lead not only to appreciation but also to its strange inverse: the understanding of what we should be celebrating that we are not: accomplishments that have never quite been accomplished, and paths waiting but never taken; and at the bottom of it all, the person who is 'not doing' what is waiting to be done.' 'Tired of ourselves, we open ourselves to ourselves at last.' DW

12/11/2020

The Blue Water Bay Beach House is taking bookings from 1st December. ❤️