Looking Outward vs. Looking Inward

Stumbled across this partial repost in my ‘maybe turn into a poem’ folder last week and it was… timely. I’m so keen, champing at the bit even, to start looking ahead, looking outward, reaching for this new future I have before me, and it’s so very hard to be patient, to walk slowly, sustainably, to let my mind and body heal before leaping onward and upward.

And of course, this invariably leads to days where I’ve pushed myself too hard, and need to be reminded that now isn’t the time for Gran...