Shift the plot
In Lynn Ungar’s poem, “In the Moment,” there is a gentle, almost chiding, call for us to step back from railing that “everything has gone off script” (which is both futile and exhausting), and instead
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Sayings
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better best.”
I see something in you that you don’t see in yourself.
— Mrs. Robinson
Quotes
One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming
– Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming
True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment.
– Owen Barfield, History in English Words
Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
— from “Unforgiven,” Clint Eastwood, dir.
Songs
Love is the only transportation / To where there’s total communication
— from If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me) sung by Mavis Staples and the Staple Singers and written by Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Ray Jackson
If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
— Charlie Parker from Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff
Loving you is not a choice It’s who I am.
— from the song “Loving You” from the musical Passion, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Poetry
And scull across his roof and make for shore, / With twisted face and pocket full of seeds.
— from “Epitaph for the Race of Man” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
But still, like dust, I rise.
— from “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
Every day is a reenactment of the creation story.
— from “A Postcolonial Tale,” by Joy Harjo. This is both a poem and a song.
…you must Be the thing you see.
— from “To Look at Any Thing,” by John Moffett
Play the scene you’re in. / Shift the plot. Tell me / Where we can go together.
— from “In The Moment” by Lynn Ungar