How do you carry your treasures over the terrain?

May you walk lightly today. May you carry the truth of infinity in your body.

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Burmese Map of the World, 1906

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Full Day

by Naomi Shihab Nye

The pilot on the plane says:
In one minute and fifty seconds
we’re going as far
as the covered wagon went
in a full day.
We look down
on clouds,
mountains of froth and foam.
We eat a neat
and subdivided lunch.
How was it for the people in
the covered wagon?
They bumped and jostled.
Their wheels broke.
Their biscuits were tough.
They got hot and cold and old.
Their shirts tore on the branches
they passed.
But they saw the pebbles
and the long grass
and the sweet shine of evening
settling on the fields.
They knew the ruts and the rocks.
They threw their furniture out
to make the wagons lighter.
They carried their treasures
in a crooked box.

by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Come With Me. Greenwillow, 2000

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Creative Invitation

• Remember a moment when the way you experienced time shifted.

• When have you lived, or traveled, most slowly?

• When have you traveled too fast to take good care?

• Is the pace at which you move or live the pace at which you want to move or live?

Action:

Draw a circle on piece of paper. This circle represents 24 hours. Draw inside the circle an image of how you want your time to be experienced. Make a map of how you want life to feel. Fill it with slices like a pie, or with swimming life like a human blood cell, or with flavors like a meal.