60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday: How Will You Know the Stranger Who Was Yourself?

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://www.wanderlustingk.com/travel-blog/flushing-queens" target="_blank">Flushing, Borough of Queens, New York</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>Maybe like me you stop and wonder who you are, where is the girl (or fellow) who used to be you, whether you’re on the right track, and so on. It feels insecure, doesn’t it, not to have all the answers sometimes. Perhaps there is great wisdom in resting in that insecurity, stop resisting, stop pushing back, wait for the time (and the answer) that will come.</p><p>The poet, <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/" target="_blank">Derek Walcott</a> might have been musing on these questions when he wrote Love After Love. He might have known his words would bring comfort, hope, anticipation, maybe even optimism. That’s what poets do.  </p><p><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/" target="_blank">Love After Love</a></p><p>“<i>The time will come</i></p><p><i>when, with elation</i></p><p><i>you will greet yourself arriving</i></p><p><i>at your own door, in your own mirror</i></p><p><i>and each will smile at the other's welcome,</i></p><p> </p><p><i>and say, sit here. Eat.</i></p><p><i>You will love again the stranger who was your self.</i></p><p><i>Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart</i></p><p><i>to itself, to the stranger who has loved you</i></p><p> </p><p><i>all your life, whom you ignored</i></p><p><i>for another, who knows you by heart.</i></p><p><i>Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,</i></p><p> </p><p><i>the photographs, the desperate notes,</i></p><p><i>peel your own image from the mirror.</i></p><p><i>Sit. Feast on your life</i>.” [- by <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-after-love/" target="_blank">Derek Walcott</a>] </p><p><strong>You’re invited</strong>: “<i>Come for the stories - stay for the magi</i>c!” Speaking of magic, would y