a reminder to focus (and breathe)

Grant me the strength 

to focus this week, 

to be mindful and present, 

to serve with excellence, 

to be a force of love.

Brendon Burchard

I have always felt that September has a 'new year' feeling with all its new beginnings and transitions. For many it is the start of a new school year, and everyone is changing gears from a summertime state-of-mind back to a business-as-usual demeanor. 

During these times of change it is so easy to feel overwhelmed and confused, so for today I offer us all this 'prayer' and a reminder to focus AND breathe. 

love, mom

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The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver

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love, mom


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may this teach help us to trust & believe . . .

'sky warrior II . . . ' installed in trees at the Center Trail, Hopkinton, MA

Teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear, and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun.

American Indian Lakota Prayer

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