Contact

I welcome the opportunity to answer initial queries by telephone or email.

To contact Margie

phone 01309 690011

mobile 07901 577944

email margie@margiemccallum.com

address 412 The Field, The Park, Findhorn Foundation, Morayshire IV36 3TA

For CD orders

telephone 01373 300433 or 07788 677608

email info@musedaypublications.co.uk

Practising Dying

I have decided to practice dying,
like the monk who sleeps nightly
with his cup upended in the saucer.

I choose to practise surrender to the things that trigger my resistance:
to Post Office queues and cancelled trains,
to dinners too cold and days too hot,
to flea bites and my achy knee.

I choose to practise acceptance of all lesser losses:
the discarded garment that came back into vogue,
the butchered apple tree in my erstwhile garden,
the friendship that envy turned sour.

I choose to practise abandoning guilt and shame:
my three failed marriages,
the promises to visit I did not keep,
my children’s struggles I failed to see.

I choose to let unfulfilled visions die:
the crafts I made that few seemed to want,
the self-help book I wrote that helped no one but me,
the retreat I set up where few came to stay.

I choose to let go, when called to, of
the little house I so adore,
the work that gives my life meaning,
the illusion that I am in control.

Like the monk who sleeps nightly
with his cup upended in the saucer,
I have decided to practise dying.

Margie McCallum
2010

(a poem from the CD 'When Death Comes Close')