For this piece, I have my Chere Mama to thank as the inspiring muse.\u00a0 Well, her and the gorgeous California sun, and some days spent by the sea celebrating her 60th birthday this past weekend.\u00a0 It’s nice to take time to come home, re-charge, and reunite with some family friends.\u00a0 Plus, my parents know how to throw a party.\u00a0 So while it’s not really a Hustle Meditation, it is another type of love poem, which as you know are the types that I love best.\u00a0 Please enjoy.<\/p>\n
xx<\/p>\n
Sterling<\/p>\n
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Every day is an opportunity to bless and be blessed,
\nand some days
\nI feel the truth of this, can barely contain myself in it.
\nI just sit in awe, letting my lower lip drop a fraction
\nfeeling so delightfully tangled
\nand not caring the way the elements
\nplay with my hair.
\nIn moments like this I know the truth,
\nthat eyes are made for so much more than seeing;
\nthat I exist somehow also to be seen
\nwatched and tenderly tended as I grow,
\nblossoming into brilliant flower and fruit.<\/p>\n
And as I watch her
\nI aspire to become as beautiful and wise.
\nI want to learn to do as she does,
\nmaturing enough to take these jeweled petals and
\ngive myself away
\nbecoming the medicine someone needs,
\nthe spice in a soup made to soothe and nourish,
\nor the note in a perfume that enchants.
\nI hope one day to be picked and made into a tea
\nor a sweet smelling bath for a child weary from pushing her tender shoots out of the earth for the first time,
\nlike my mother was for me.<\/p>\n
I know that I will remember to dance,
\nto roll around, hang upside down if the mood strikes me, spread myself across the world,
\ncaressing every corner before I go.
\nI will dry gracefully like roses that still hold the magic of a thousand valentines or love spells,
\nbecoming somehow more potent as the heavenly bodies whirl around us.
\nIt is a blessing to know now that we are dancing together.<\/p>\n
In this moment there is nothing but gratitude
\nand I feel so much more like a thief than a poet
\nto have so much.
\nSo I breathe in deeply
\nthe blessing that is today
\nknowing I am only borrowing the wind.
\nAs my breath dissolves, I feel such relief
\nbecause I am giving it back to you.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I can be the poet after all;
\nshe is the one who gives everything away.<\/p>\n
For you Mama!\u00a0 On your birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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