meditation

Connection

doesn't always mean being online

If anything the unplugged connection

is far more powerful.

Observing trailing thoughts and using

focusing ways like counting down from 10 to 1

That help to just sit

Every morning at 6.30 am

I no longer feel my disconnection

that can be when I go about my day

When I think too much about trivial things.

When I get stressed or upset about work.

Instead my body sits on the floor

and I can no longer feel where I end

and the rest of me starts.

I expand and become centered at the same time.

Exploration on my doorstep.

It doesn't even require me to leap out of my payamas

It's found once I finally decide

to be still.

And listen.

To the vibrant hum that always is.

I am home wherever I am.

I am me wherever I can look myself in the eye.

And I am never alone.

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More about the human spirograph here

a breeze

Once

when we spoke silently

we held our breaths

Because it stormed outside

We lit a candle

and eventually fell asleep.

In our dreams

The tides would rise

The water spilling over the walls

and the earth would split open.

Now we have woken up

and we rattle and shake.

Yet we have each other

and our hopes and dreams remain

unwritten and unsung.

Hanging in the air

like dandelion fluff waiting to catch

a breeze.