Day #26: Seventh Poem: Gratitude

Community Garden 1/26/15

 

Gratitude

for Anna Berry

 

I am grateful for time

time to smell

   chicken and pear cooking in the oven

to breath

   intentionally into my toes

   hold 6 release 8

to take naps

   on cloudy afternoons

   when the calm before the storm

   makes my eyes droop.

 

I am grateful for connections

connections to

   family

   friends who watch over me

   tease me

   depend on me

   sing with me

to a practice

   of intention

   of others' gratitude

 

I am grateful for the presence

   the insight and wisdom

   the past has brought.

   Stories that inform

   pictures that transform

   music that comforts

   movement that maintains.

I am grateful.

 



Seven poems in seven days, another form of intention, another form of beauty to balance out my life.

I hope I don't loose power in the next 24 hours, but if I do, I will write my blog longhand and post it as soon as I can.  I've gotten into the swing of this so I now look forward to it.  Writing was canceled for tomorrow night, so I will do it in this form instead.

I know my posted questions don't get answered, but does anyone know how to post a slideshow on a blog?  My slideshows are in Picassa. 

And the final question of the day is: what animal print is this?