New Year's Magic

Again, at the hands of a powerful one. In the past, my deep moments have come face down, deep in my hips, body racked in grief. Today, something different - my heart.

During savasana, a poem. "When I Am Among the Trees" by Mary Oliver from her newest collection, Thirst. At the closing stanza:

And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.

My heart filled with light, and I felt myself pulled up off the mat as if a celestial string were reeling in my heart. I stayed there for some moments in wonder and delight, feeling the glow and the warmth and the yearning. And then, aware of my back arching, my chest reaching, I slowly settled back onto the mat.

For 2007, one single and simple resolution: to shine.