Learning can feel exhausting, and exhilarating. It can be especially tiring if we are learning over long periods of time. Sustained attention takes energy. When we travel or learn a new language. We think, hear, and sense in new words.

The kind of lens is required when we move to a new team or organization, where the same words mean something entirely different when interpreted through a different set of values.

This poem is a nice reminder of the cycles of learning and the small things that give us the energy to sustain the journey.

“The work of the world is common as mud.

Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.

But the thing worth doing well done

has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.”