“i thank You God for most this amazing” by E. E. Cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
This poem was on my old desk in my office. I always loved this poem. It speaks to me of the honesty of being in the moment and truly alive. Living from a place of deep gratitude.
The first time I lived here I failed to understand the changes of seasons. I missed all the pauses and intricacies of nature. I missed the sounds of the birds emerging in the spring, the buds appearing on the trees, the subtle shifts in the weather and the rain. I missed seeing all the possibilities just waiting after winter right in front of me. Where the snow has been, the mud, now tulips are emerging. All these different signs of life have existed the whole time waiting for the right moment bloom.
When we first moved here my daughter lost her AirPods. Using the find my phone app we tried locating them. Grace drove her around for over an hour and Maya went to three different houses asking if they had seen her AirPods. They went back to the school again as well to search. No luck finding them anywhere
The location kept changing.
In the end, they ended up being in her bag, in the car.
Sometimes we fear we have lost something that is actually right in front of us. It is there the whole time, right in our bag, and maybe even ourselves.
This memory popped in my head as I was thinking on what the transition from winter to spring feels like to me.
As we begin to emerge from the solitude of winter it is good to remember that often what we seek is right beneath the surface.
I hope this spring finds you blossoming in new moments. As the world emerges from COVID and life adapts from the longest winter most of us have lived through, you begin to find the pieces or things you thought you had lost too.
As always I am here to boost your immune system, tune up your body and help you connect to all the pieces of you.
Best,
Jess