60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: In This Moment What Belongs to Whom?

Hello to you listening in Bang Bai Mai, Surat Thani Province, Thailand!

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories from Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.

This poem by Margaret Atwood feels like a welcome antidote to claiming all that we believe belongs to us:

The Moment

“The moment when, after many years

of hard work and a long voyage

you stand in the centre of your room,

house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,

knowing at last how you got there,

and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose

their soft arms from around you,

the birds take back their language,

the cliffs fissure and collapse,

the air moves back from you like a wave

and you can’t breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.

You were a visitor, time after time

climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.

We never belonged to you.

You never found us.

It was always the other way round.”      [from Eating Fire (Virago, 1998), © Margaret Atwood 1998]

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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