Sometimes it is essential to eliminate rather than accumulate. Sometimes it is necessary to let go and create space to bring clarity, meaning and fulfillment to life. 🔥 This wonderful poem by Judy Brown titled “Fire” comes with great wisdom that highlights the importance of our attention to the spaces in-between woods as much as to the wood itself to build fire. A great reminder to PAUSE, DROP and BREATHE, and create a mental SPACE.

How about you? Are you good at building fires? Do you relate? Do you feel better when you have breathing spaces for yourself? Do you also pay attention to spaces in between?

FIRE 🔥
What makes a fire burn
is space between the logs,
a breathing space.
Too much of a good thing,
too many logs
packed in too tight
can douse the flames
almost as surely
as a pail of water would.

So building fires
requires attention
to the spaces in between,
as much as to the wood.

When we are able to build
open spaces
in the same way
we have learned
to pile on the logs,
then we can come to see how
it is fuel, and absence of the fuel
together, that make fire possible.

We only need to lay a log
lightly from time to time.

A fire
grows
simply because the space is there,
with openings
in which the flame
that knows just how it wants to burn
can find its way.

- Judy Brown

Photography: Alexander Wieck