On poetry and being authentic...
This morning I awoke with the line ‘the time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror…’ from the poem ‘Love after Love’ by Derek Walcott. In preparation for a workshop I am delivering later this week on ‘Being Authentic’ and the power that authenticity holds for each of us, I decided to take this poem into my heart, and weave it, like an alchemical medicine into my cells. The poem reminded me of how, as a little girl
