Moments are fleeting.
In the blink of an eye, gone.
Savor their presence.
Tag: appreciate
Beauty all around
Beauty all around.
Pause. Breathe. Relish the magic.
Life: our greatest gift.
spend time with me
My inner self calls out to me
from deep within the walls of skin.
She yearns to spend time with me
for she feels ignored, forgotten,
unappreciated.
“Come spend time with me.
Let me show you who I really am
and what I need from you.
We have potential to unite as one;
we don’t need to do this alone.
I know how to access
all you’re looking for.
I know these depths within better than you,
everything is already here.
Let me be your guide.”
To see,
to know,
to understand,
is to love:
to love myself.
practice gratitude
What we have today
may not be here tomorrow.
Practice gratitude.
listening to my body
It’s OK to take it easy,
slow down your pace for a while,
if your body tells you it needs such.
I hear this from my body today,
a yearning to just be,
without constraints or expectations.
She yearns for me to listen, and oblige,
the least I could do.
She asks for love, and compassion,
and acceptance.
Unconditionally.
“Love me just the way I am, now.”
So today, I will slow down,
listen to, and love
my body.
morning sounds
Sound carries a long distance
in the morning
when there are few others
to compete with.
Listen to the world.
Appreciate, then choose,
your contribution.
the longer I stay
The longer I stay,
the brighter the room becomes,
light natural and free
illuminates,
until everything feels different.
Time has passed, and brought change.
The longer I stay,
the more change I witness,
and appreciate.
see the forest too
Stop where you are.
Look at the tree, the single tree
in front of you,
and the one beside.
But also, look beyond.
Look out, at the giant forest
standing tall in the background,
where some trees in the front
can be distinguished,
but the further you look
the more they all blur together.
A sea of greens and browns,
needles and leaves,
rocks and twigs
individual, but collective.
When you cannot see the forest for the trees,
you lose the collective.
Stop, step back,
appreciate the forest
and your tree within it.
mole hills into mountains
Sometimes
all it takes,
is listening to
and empathizing with others
to realize,
no matter how real
my pain and struggles may seem,
my mind often gets the better of me
and turns mole hills
into mountains.
early morning glow
Strange, how
the early morning glow and warmth
rests upon my eyes in a new way,
like I have never before sat in the kitchen
eating breakfast before work
and looked outside to the world waking up.
It must have happened before,
years before,
and days too many to count.
How unfortunate
to think of those mornings unappreciated,
showing up to start anew
yet passing by my clouded eyes,
gone.
Dawning Words 