On my route home from the ferry, Isle of Mull, Scotland

This Day

3/30/09

When it comes to impacting shifts

I'll choose spiritual realm often

my 'journey song' reveals as much

and yesterday was no exception

participating in 'sweat lodge ceremony',

waking to a renewed outlook

willing again to risk my significance,

personal reputation, from being judged

by family, friends, partners, society,

for following the path less traveled

perhaps seen as unrealistic, irrational,

dangerously on the edge of failure,

yet doing so with equanimity, peace,

expressing joy in this life adventure,

being a model of what's possible,

probable, when attitude is gratitude,

perpetually seeing miracle everywhere

all wrapped up in moment of 'now',

there is no other place to be

even when convinced 'illusion' is real

using so much energy to defend

that there is something we need,

must protect, while enshrining fear,

which becomes idol of worship,

instead embrace 'paradigm of love'

on 'this day', then courageously live.