We become the places we love, by David Whyte
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As the wind howls around his camping caravan on a remote Welsh farm, poet David Whyte sits at a table, trying – and failing – to write. He's worried he has lost his gift. He's worried he never had a gift at all. But just outside, invisible and unexpected, is someone who offers him help – and friendship – at the exact moment he needs it. Their lifelong friendship takes root here, in the magical, windswept landscape of Wales, where place-names are poetry, where memories live long in the rolling hills.
David Whyte is a poet and author. He has written 10 volumes of poetry and four books of prose, including the bestselling The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America. His newest book is River Flow: New & Selected Poems.
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| 0:00.0 | There are many winter nights when the wind comes up the Ogwind valley below and threatens |
| 0:14.4 | to blow my caravan away. |
| 0:19.0 | I am not easy on myself beneath that wind. |
| 0:23.0 | I am having a really difficult time and feeling very, very sorry for this young man who |
| 0:31.7 | wants to become a writer. |
| 0:35.8 | I need help. |
| 0:37.6 | I remember saying I need help, visible and invisible help. |
| 0:47.3 | Invisible help is the help that you do not as yet know you need. |
| 0:56.9 | Sometimes that help appears and you walk right past it and other times you actually recognize |
| 1:02.9 | it and this invisible help is one day suddenly made visible right outside of my caravan. |
| 1:16.8 | As a poet David White uses words to bring light to our deepest human feelings and impulses. |
| 1:24.0 | Poetry he says is language against which we have no defences. |
| 1:29.9 | He is the author of ten poetry collections as well as celebrated nonfiction addressing |
| 1:34.5 | the transformative nature of work, heartbreak and identity. |
| 1:39.4 | In today's meditative story David shares experiences from a magical time when he lived |
| 1:44.2 | in the Welsh mountains when he was just coming into his own as a poet, sharing stories |
| 1:49.2 | of truth that are both ethereal and yet wholly grounded in the wisdom of the land and its |
| 1:54.1 | people. |
| 1:56.6 | In this series we combine immersive first person stories and breathtaking music with the |
| 2:01.4 | science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice. |
| 2:06.6 | From way twat this is a meditative story. |
| 2:13.4 | I'm Murehen and I'll be your guide. |
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