The Way of the Willow

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself and all the while a great wind carries me across the sky.

Ojibwe saying.

For those unfamiliar with the tv show The Sopranos this enigmatic saying appeared in one of the episodes and it struck a chord, not just with Tony Soprano, but myself too.
It poetically captures the reality of our helpless powerless selves caught in a wholly causal universe and the pointless futile habit of feeling sorry for ourselves when events appear not to favour us.
I keep this saying pinned on my fridge by a guitar shaped magnet. It reminds me that I belong to a greater whole and although it appears I can effect small changes to my own course through the universe that I am, like a canoeist caught on a rip tide, bound on a course that has been set upon since the beginning of time.

May the willow Gods be with you always.

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