January Garden

How can you make spring flowers grow in January?

Easy. Just write about them so they come alive inside your mind and heart.

Start with the itty bitty crocuses -- yellow, white and purple -- that can poke up even in a late season snow.

Go forward to the dazzling tulips that bloom in yellow, red, orange, pink, purple and so many other colors.

When spring is in full force, there will be hyacinth and daffodils,

bleeding heart, phlox, lupine, dogwood, magnolia, lilac, poppies, rhododendron, azalea and many more.

Before you know it, a whole garden has risen up in your imagination. Stay with it and let Mother Nature plant her finery in your soul.

It's a great way to get through winter!

All at Once

I stop and

drop inside

into silence

where energy

sensation

settles thick in my

arms and legs

abdomen back and torso.

And there I

stay feeling the

breath come in

And

outside the window

I see the grey

mottled clouds above

and thin patches of

white snow on the brown meadow.

How long it has

Taken me to

Understand

Really know

That the PRESENT MOMENT

Is simply the Now of ETERNITY.

When you see it

That way

You feel ever so

Briefly ever so

Much closer

To INFINITY.

And then you’re

Back in the old

Head and there

Is a runner in a

Turquoise sweatshirt

Moving quickly down

The road at the other

Side of that meadow.

Oh how I wish I could

Go running. Because

Of my knees I have begun

To walk, and today because

Of a wickedly thick  congestion

In my head I am

Holding forth on

The sofa.

JUST WATCHING.

Waiting.

So terribly excited.

That I might

be

PRESENT.

At

Any

MOMENT.