On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets in to you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green, And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A […]
Wonder, by Rosemerry Trommer
I wear my wonder like old running shoes— not elegant, not sophisticated, surprisingly inappropriate in certain rooms. I notice how others sometimes wrinkle their noses at a blatant sporting of wonder, thinking, perhaps, I must be oblivious to the dress code: stilettos of apathy, high heels of indifference, boots of cool reserve. But dang, this […]
Invitation, by Mary Oliver
Oh, do you have time to linger for a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to see who can sing the highest note, or the lowest, or the most expressive of mirth, or the most tender? […]
“If”, by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or, being […]
Home, by Warsan Shire
no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the whole city running as wellyour neighbors running faster than youbreath bloody in their throatsthe boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factoryis holding a gun bigger than his bodyyou only […]
Breathe Together, by Jeff Foster
It’s easy to teach, to preach, to give memorized answers. It’s easy to be an expert. It’s harder to listen, to really listen. To be still and wait. To give someone space. To receive them with your whole being. When you think you know what’s “best” for someone, when you’re excited by your own vision, […]
The beauty of this day, by Carla Martins
May I, on this dayRecognize the small beautiesThat are already hereAnd that emerge moment by moment,As unconditional giftsThat ask nothing of me in returnMay I rest my attentionOn the perfection of natureOf others, of myself and of the worldEmbracing this perfectionThat includes all shadesFrom the most grayTo the most colorfulThat I find outsideKnowing that in […]
The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry
When despair grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feed.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their […]
Moments, by Nadine Stair
If I could live again my life.Next time, I would tryto make more mistakes.I would not try to be so perfect.I would relax more.I would be more full than I am now.In fact, I would take fewer things seriously.I would be less hygienic.I would take more risks.I would travel more.I would watch more sunsets.I would […]
This body is not me, by Thich Nhat Hanh
This body is not me. I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous true mind. Since before time, I have been free. Birth and death are only […]