Sharon Elliott is a corporate speaker, writing circle facilitator and an everyday poet.
She uses the power of language to experience the gap between thoughts, to be energized by inner wisdom and to enliven wholehearted living.
Sharon is commited to creating adult learning environments that support social/emotional intelligence. She believes that creativity, initiative and cooperation can be enhanced in adulthood. As a writer and mother she draws from a deep well of experience and encourages each of us to tap into our own sources of strength and wisdom. In 2008 she co-authored, A Child’s Way: Slowing Down for Goodness Sake, with her daughter, Carrie Ferguson.
Slowing Down for Goodness Sake
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
~ Mary Oliver ~
