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Live Wonder

Tenneson Woolf, Most Mornings, Live Wonder

“Live Wonder” is one of my favorite poems from Most Mornings.

I think of it as a road map for living with more consciousness. It is six verbs, one per stanza. It is also six contexts to shape meaningful action. At one level it is an assertion of key guiding values. At another level it is today’s list of todo and areas of focus.

Most of my poetry is written in response to a question. The question through much of Most Mornings is how to live with more purpose as a human being. In the day to day, morning to morning. And in the longer arc of life timeline.

Perhaps there is insight for you too.

Live Wonder

Be
with what is.

Know
what brings
you alive.

From that, offer
contribution.

Give voice
to purpose.

Invite
possibility
and heart.

Live
wonder.

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And On It Goes — A Life Story

I’m learning. Just right. An important life story. 
It’s an operating system. Personalized indeed. But not just for me.

It’s this.

I have to move with yes energy.
Yes to self.
Yes to circumstance.
Yes to life flowing.
Yes to learning of hard things.
Yes to acting, taking steps in the inherent mess, but also in the inherent beauty.

This is different than all the no energies.
Including many of my favorites.
This is different than moving with fear or to prevent fear.
This is different that moving with failure or to prevent failure.

At the core,
trusted belly and trusted people in my life
have been guiding.

Trust life to flow.
And flow with it. 

Surprise and magic
then have a way of showing up and growing.
And laughing. And delighting.

Yes, learning.

A story to guide most of the other stories.
A story to enjoy and carry and live everywhere.

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Sweetness of Companioning

Cheese Fondue, Simple joy,
Dana Burnett, Kayak, Companioning, Utah, Oquirrh Lake

It’s true that companioning has been top of my list of profound experience over the last year and a half. So much learned, of love, in new form. So much celebrated, of together, in both simple and profound ways. This moving of the heart — what delightful surrender. This weekend, cheese fondue. And kayak paddle. Cheers D.

Yup, so, just sayin’. Companioning matters on many layers. This weekend highlighted a particular kind that I’m glad to carry into this week.

This companioning,
what sweetness.

This going together,
what opening.

This creating together,
what wonder.

This life flowing,
what joy.

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Base-Lined To Joy, Sun-Kissed In All Of It

Sweet Peppers, Daybreak, Living Simplicity

Sweet peppers grow in a pot on our front walk. They are still blooming. We still harvest. The peppers themselves for salads. The insights for reminder of simple things on a Wednesday.

I wish
to be
at peace
in the every day
of the every day
and in the the great flowing
of it all.

In the stillness.
In the movement.
In the clarity.
In the complexity.

I wish 
to be
in utter peace,
base-lined
to joy,
sun-kissed
in all of it.

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