Category: Mindfulness
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Capturing Winter’s Beauty: A Journaling Journey
For the month of January, I am taking part in the challenge from Wild Wonder Foundation to nature journal each day. I will do my best to meet that challenge but also plan to give myself grace on the days I can’t fit it in. The above poem was written in response to the prompt…
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Finding Joy in Presence: A Poetic Reflection
Let me be lulled by the melody of your voice- the rises and falls, the acceleration, repetition and easing. Let me be infected with the joy of your smile and laughter so each cell of my body retains this energy once you depart. Let me be awed by the ideas, creativity and humor developed in…
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Nature’s Healing: Finding Light Through Darkness
Oh Mother Nature, I come to you today seeking your healing for my bleak soul adorned in mourning blackness. I want to sit amongst this community of sky touching spruce trees while the goldeness of our sun plays hide-n-seek with outstretched branches and tall, thin trunks. I ask you to help restore my soul, my…
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Last Row of the Season: A Poetic Journey
The season of rowing is ending- One last session on the canal Eight rowers in unison Gliding over water Sunshine to twilight Blush, violet, peach, grace the sky BEAUTY stuns It was the last row of the season. It is getting darker earlier and the Erie Canal will soon be drained. I had mixed emotions…
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Joyful Learning After Tech Glitches and Nature’s Reset
Tech glitches FRUSTRATION Change math plans Walk outside Sun, sky, warmth Relieves angst Back to class learning starts joyfully. This is the tale of my day at school so far. I was in a kindergarten class co-teaching a math lesson. The students were going to be using their ipads for the first time. They were…
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Harvesting Summer’s Bounty
Gathering in summer’s bounty one last weekend harvesting… the blue sky, sunshiny beach day, warm grains of sand forming to the shape of my foot, rhythmic wash of waves dispersing over the shore, relaxed mind reading while reclined in my beach chair, a quiet ohhh with my first steps into the cool water, wading farther…
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Embracing the Silence: Reflections on the Almost Last Day of School
Sitting at my desk on the almost last day of school SILENCE The whir of the AC is all that reaches my ears SILENCE The halls are lonely SILENCE The walls are stripped bare SILENCE The school seems sorrowful SILENCE Summer for students has arrived SILENCE My tired teacher being rests in SILENCE resting and…
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The Battle Within: Body-Mind Tug-of-War
So this was the battle between my body and my brain this morning when the alarm went off. The thoughts bantering about clicked into a Poem for Two Voices. The blue is the messages of my body. The red are the thoughts in my mind. The purple words are said by both voices as they…
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Joyful Surprise: Unexpected Golden Gleam
Unexpected glint golden gleam in sunlight’s path lost earring found-joy! Unbelievable! Still can’t believe that I actually found this earring. Last evening, I was grocery shopping and ran into a friend. She pointed out that I was missing an earring. I had no idea where or when I had lost it. I just assumed it…
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Embracing Tranquility: Connecting with Nature on a Walk Through the Woods
Happy-go-lucky new born green leaves dance in dappled sun welcoming me back to my true beginnings A community of sentinel trees surround me enfolding me in their pytoncides comforting me as a fellow nature being. Cheeps, twitters and coos waft on air filling my mind with relaxing, melodic tunes beckoning my soul to add chords…
Doodads and Doodles 