Sore Soar

Playing in the wilderness
Hiking through the woods
Miles to go
Blisters rising
Sore

Sunlight peaking from the clouds
Filtering through the branches
Highlighting freckles
And blue sparkles under lash

Laughter trickling
Away from his mouth
Incandescent smile
Captures my heart
Soar

Baby Steps to Mindfulness?

I am writing this blog entry as I listen to Jon Kabat-Zinn's CD, Mindfulness for Beginners. I have tried to listen to it before (three times) and I keep falling asleep so now I am trying to listen to it while I blog. I know this totally goes against the whole concept of mindfulness, but I am going with the theory that some is better than none. I do catch certain things he is saying. But now my dog is barking at the wild bunnies in our yard and I smell the Chinese food we had for dinner still lingering in the air. Crab Rangoon. I think I missed something he said. All I hear is "blah, blah, blah" on the CD. Actually, focusing back in on the CD, he is now talking about our awareness and the different things we could be aware of that we are often not aware of on an everyday basis. Argh. Maybe I should try reading the book instead of listening to the CD. His voice is putting me to sleep again, even as I am blogging. I guess this is good that he has a soothing voice as you would not want someone in charge of a stress reduction clinic to have a grating, stress inducing voice. I think I will stop the CD now and focus on this picture I took and be mindful of how much I appreciate the beauty of nature and visualize myself in the botanical gardens sitting in the field filled with these flowers.......zzzzzzz