Turning Sideways

“Turning Sideways”

Turn sideways; turn sideways... 
Into the mist…into the light… 
As did the ancient Celts

Slip beneath the cold, clear surface 
Through ancestral waters of memory and belonging

Learn to live between things... 
In the subtle fluidity reputations and beliefs

In a way that keeps your awareness and 
Attention sharpened to the moment.

Listen deeply to those thin spaces, those liminal places 
Inside the brief and simple explanations. 

Discipline the mind not to begin questions 
It already knows the answers too. 

Respond boldly to the prayers of your descendants 
So that the name you carry be the one that carries you 

Into a story that feeds your people well,
Those in this world and in the other. 

Written by Kedar S. Brown, May 2013