today we breathed together, meditated on lovingkindness, talked and walked in friendly silence, concentrating on growing our hearts. we mindfully went through our day, trying to learn self-compassion, and to unlearn the malice with which we’ve talked to ourselves for years. today our hearts grew, just a little, and we got to know ourselves a little more.
dawn came with a rush and sibilance of air as geese flew overhead, a solitary crow on a telegraph wire, watching. the sky steaked with brilliant pink fading to soft antique rose, lavender clouds with luminous edges. bumblebees already bumblebeing, busy on the sunshine yellow bird’s foot trefoil and the sun itself, slowly emerging from the clouds, golden and brilliant.
