The Courage in Poetry, An International Creative Community Aligns To Learn and Love. And We Are All Invited To Join.
What can poetry teach us about courage?
by David Whyte
"During this time of intense personal, political and collective anxiety, working from this internal bodily foundation of caring and compassion is vital both for our own individual sanity and for the sanity of our societies.
By exploring courage, beauty, and vulnerability, as well as, from a practical point of view, some of the tiny everyday disciplines each of us can undertake to better our lives, this series should work as a kind of close companion to our thoughts, our difficulties and our possibilities for a present and future happiness.
For more than 30 years, I've spoken about the role of courage in everyday human life, reminding us that the origin of the word is coeur, meaning heart, the foundational way we care about a person, a passion or solving a central perplexity in our lives; all felt in the mind, the body and the spirit and all felt at an intimate crossroads of robustness and physical vulnerability."
An open invitation to explore more of David's exquisite poetry in his lounge room over 3 weekends in April can be found here.