Do you ever find yourself thinking in Facebook status updates? Unfortunately I do. Maybe I can think of it more as narrating life in the third person, which is always kind of fun.
I don't have much time tonight because I want to be all bright and shiny and perky (or as perky as it gets in forty degree weather) for my first day of school tomorrow, but I wanted to share a catchphrase (of which we WorldTeachers had many) during orientation, partly for you, and partly to remind myself.
Just be liquid.
Lots of unanticpated "sorpresas" in the past day and a half, the least fun of which is that I am now sans Jessie in Yumbel, thanks to even MORE annoying Ministry hijinks! (say it with me... maaa.. puuu.... chayyyy....!) This alone makes everything a little colder than it should be. Living with a host family is turning out to be harder than expected; I'm hoping the awkward period wears off sooner rather than later. More on them later, because they are really nice people. Just a lot of uncertainty, which requires me to be more liquid than what I am accustomed to.
Wish me luck and warm toes for tomorrow! And LOTS of liquidity! In return I promise you pictures of Home Sweet Yumbel, where the magic may or may not happen.
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Hi Meghan... I really like your blog, thanks for posting... Found this and thought you might find it of interest... Peace... Kusala
ReplyDeleteIt's from the Tao Te Ching - The Yin principle is softness and flexibility and associated with life and survival. The Yang with rigorous and hard.
Alive a man is supple, soft;
In death, unbending, rigorous.
All creatures, grass and trees, alive
Are plastic but are pliant too,
And dead, are friable and dry.
Unbending rigor is the mate of death,
And yielding softness, company of life;
Unbending soldiers get no victories;
The stiffest tree is readiest for the ax,
The strong and mighty topple from their place;
The soft and yielding rise above them all.