Stop and Smell the Flowers . . .

How busy it's been

Now I'm in another country

How busy it gets

When I just STOP

drop out of my head and into my body

breathe, feel the air, sense all around me, look up

use commas, full stops.

pause

what comes in is gratitude

and all the sparkles and smells and tingles

bring life back into me

if I just stop

When the kids get nutty I send them outside

I say take off your shoes and put your feet on the ground

it works

I need to do it for me too

They get to just be more than we let ourselves do

So here's a little big kids colouring to take time out to play and ponder

together or alone.

I might colour it autumn and you might make it spring

but together we make our lives come bright

when we let the gratitude in

Print it out

take some time for you . . .