Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. This week's go to is a collection of very short accessible poems that I love and have been turning to when the world, my little tiny world that doesn't have my mom in it anymore, and the world,

capital T, capital W, seemed to be going completely sideways.

This is a set of poems that I found to be hugely useful.

The first is called,

This is the Time to be Slow.

It's by an Irish poet named John O'Donohue.

Of course, his name is John O'Donohue.

This is the time to be slow.

Lie low to the wall until the bitter weather passes.

Try as best you can not to let the wire brush of doubt scrape from your heart

all sense of yourself and your hesitant light.

If you remain generous, time will come good, and you will find your feet again on fresh pastures of promise where the air will be kind and

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