Focus on giving love to yourself and others as you follow this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Listening", by Julie Barton.

Listening, by Julie Barton

I rebuilt my ancestral altar. 

Two nights later, two great-horned owls 

stood near my front door.

I knew they were my grandparents who

lingered. 

They said in the next 

morning’s meditation, Where we are,

masculine and feminine don’t exist. 

(I heard it like an apology.) 

We’re all just energy here. 

(I heard: We had it so wrong.)

It’s just love.

I replied, That’s what the trees say too.

I inhaled with my still warm body, asked 

for guidance. 

Let go, they said. Keep going. 

Write with your eyes closed.

-Listening, by Julie Barton (from, Out With Lanterns, a daily poetry practice).

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