Embrace love and peace through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with her poem, "December 1, 2023, Coffee Poem".

"December 1 , 2023, Coffee Poem", by Julie Potiker.

My flannel pajama bottoms got wet when I folded myself into my morning sit spot

That’s ok

It didn’t prompt me to move

Just to feel the dampness on the back of my thighs.

I wonder whether my morning coffee meditation rituals are getting repetitive

After all, it’s the same location

Same coffee

Same me

Same same

But yet, what I really want to say is it’s always new

Always different

Now the Allen’s Hummingbird

Now the California Scrub Jay

The Western Bluebird

Construction equipment humming and beeping a yard away

My big dogs barking their heads off

The faded terracotta tiles and bricks have dark patches where water still seeps into clay

curled carob leaves

Some yellowish green

Some brown

arranged haphazardly hither and yon

A perfect design wrought from a powerful rain.

~"December 1 , 2023, Coffee Poem", by Julie Potiker.

Find out more about using mindfulness in everyday life through Julie's books, "SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". Both are available on Amazon.com.

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