Here are words that sustain and inspire me to become the full expression of Agile Coaching, for myself and for the teams I coach.
Connections are Made Slowly
by Marge Piercy
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground
You cannot tell always by looking at what is happening
More than half a tree is spread out in the soil under your feet
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet
Fight persistantly as the creeper that brings down the tree
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden
Gnaw in the dark, and use the sun to make sugar
Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses
Live a life you can endure: make live that is loving
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in, a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us it is interconnected with rabbit runs and burrows and lairs
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always
For every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes
