lost in the song

Where else do you lose your 'self'?

I mean the one that gets created to sell

that everything's fine

and you're on top of it.

Not the one that lets tears

fall down to her chin.

And sings really loud

not needing to know

what key it's even in.

Turn up the volume

be lost

and be found.

lost and found in the stillness

Where else do I lose myself?

It's not always meditation

but when I am still and feel 

everything around me 

life gets richer 

the birds sound clearer

the air meets

the ground embraces

knots unravel

thoughts trail upward

ideas land

there's so much more space 

that everything fits 

and 

can even move round

and

if I get it even bigger

they play

Where do you lose your 'self'

and find your connection 

to all?

Here Now

 here now

and sinking in

the ground is soft underfoot and leaves float to the ground

the colours are softer, a whole new palette

But the smiles are the same and it's cosy when all zipped up

I see rain far away where I came from 

but at the end of this week

the picture here 

says snow!

where's your now here?

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 . . .