receiving this Day

in times where exhaustion

is the condition

upon entering the day

and Compassion

is in attrition 

and wasting away

where do we find

the inspiration

to empower us

through the duration

of this pandemic

turned endemic?

maybe by facing

our sources of frustration

and placing 

a healthy boundary

around our rage

preventing an explosion

upon our nemesis

while protecting

our fragile psyche

from an implosion

upon its genesis

nurturing the Source

of our Being

and keeping it well

maybe by embracing

this darkest night

as a Way

to heal

this dawning Day 

and receive it

as a Gift

to engage

with a Story

all its own

to tell

(even if it appears

on its surface

to have emerged

from hell)

and allowing it

to open our Selves

to the possibility

that what we need

is still Present

beneath all 

that's been exhausted

and drained

of all vitality

to give our flexibility

that's been stretched

beyond its buoyancy

a chance

to be restored

and our resiliency

the space 

to be renewed

to discover anew

that our innate expandability

is never fully exhausted

but simply needs

a chance

to be allowed

to rest

in the embrace

of a dog

named after a glacier

in the grace

of laughter

catalyzed by comments

protected by erasure

but shared in confidence

with treasured friends

and being reminded

when we are seemingly

at our wit's ends

and reached the limits

of our sanity

and confronting our mortality

that our deeper Reality

is founded

in the Miracle

of how our psyches

and bodies

and Spirits

can boundlessly bend

and grounded

in the spherical Incarnality

of Love

that never ends.

#ColleaguesWhoAreFriendsWithNoPretensesIsAGiftThatKeepsOnGiving #SistersAndBrothersFromDifferentMothersButTheSameLover #TeamCorkscrewFTW 

('Receiving the Night to Heal the Day' - artist unknown)