Day 176: “Lessons From Mom”
How to be open
Welcoming
Giving
Kind
Smart
Empathetic
Caring
How to smile
Laugh
Give great hugs
Say ‘I love you’
How to be brave
Confident
Strong
Proud
How to make friends
Smile at strangers
Talk to people
How to release
Feel
Surrender
How to be there
For others
For myself
How to grow
Learn
Evolve
Day 175: “You Can Set You Free”
Knowing yourself
Gives you freedom
If you truly know who you are
What makes you happy
Where you feel most aligned
Then judgment means nothing
You don’t believe the negativity
Because it simply isn’t true
To you
You don’t take on anything that dims you
You don’t accept the shame others try to give you
It’s not easy though
But spending time with yourself
Paying attention to what makes you feel incredible
Alive
Centered
That’s the makings of an authentic you
You want to be unapologetically yourself
You want to be unashamed
Then get to know yourself
And do what makes you happy
Watch what holds you back fall away
And rise as the most you you there is
Day 174: “Never Leave”
Even without her
She’s still teaching me
Helping me
to learn to be alone
be with myself
To enjoy the stillness
And quiet
To get to know myself
She’s not physically here
But her love is still teaching me
To love me
Day 171: “Life is a Constant Change”
I haven’t met the me
That will wake up tomorrow
Or the me that will be walking down the street
A week from now
I’ve said goodbye to many me’s
Some linger
But I’m a new me
Every day
Every minute
Growing
Changing
Getting older
Hopefully wiser
Living
So I’ll rest my head tonight
And say goodbye
Ready to greet the new me in the morning
Day 170: “Step Counter”
Each step
Pushes me further
Lift my left
Then my right
Move
Along and along
Until
I’m where I want to be
But all the while
On the path to reinvention
I’m right where I’m supposed to be
Day 168: “Life Exists in the Resting”
Stillness
Quiet
I can see the mountains
Hear the birds
Feel my heart
My chest
My body
Feel the soil
Grounded
Still
Perched
Resting
Until I’m ready to take flight
Day 167: “Reinvention”
I’m getting into a new routine
Working out
Eating right
Rinse
Repeat
I’m starting to get the hang
Then I can get back on track with my poetry
Who said you can only become resolute at the start of the year?
Day 164: “Hope That Lasts”
Hope
I saw a glimmer of hope today
It felt freeing
Dangerous
Maybe even reckless
I’d like to follow that feeling
See what’s in store
And hope it never runs out again
Day 162: “To Not Know”
I don’t know
Say it with me,
I don’t know
It’s okay to not know
To not venture a guess
To not speculate
To not make believe you know more
Than someone else
Someone dumb enough to ask the question
It’s actually stronger,
Braver,
Smarter
To ask the question
To say, ‘I don’t know’
To stop,
Pause
Listen
Ask someone else
To be real
Level
Authentic
And not hide behind an imagined superiority
The ego-centric belief that if someone finds out you don’t know as much
You’ll lose all of the respect and reverence you’ve garnered
You’ve actually already lost it
If you can never admit
You don’t know
Day 159: “Something New”
I put myself out there today
I tried something new
I spoke into my camera
And I recorded audio too
I jumped
I laughed
I recited
I chaffed
I did it scared
I did it nervous
Hell, I did it nonetheless
Faking It Made 