Julie Potiker guides you through this loving kindness meditation with familiar phrases of comfort. May you be safe, may you be happy and may you live your life with ease. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Par Avon".
Par Avion, by Julie Potiker
I remember feather light lettersMessages I don’t want to forget
Pale blue onionskin paperRed and blue dashesTriangle wings folded inAnd sealed with spit
Her elegant cursive handwritingwith my name in tight loops on the frontA complete synopsis of the tv show Dynasty insidein her small and splendid script
My housemates in Earls Court Squareamassedfor the weekly letter from my mom,all us lucky juniors from American collegesexperiencing London, Englandon our parents’ dime.
Those weekly letters were memorable,and made me feel special, too.I’m not surethat Iever saidan appropriateThank You.
I wish I had saved one of those letters,
I’d like to feel it’s airiness it in my hand,trace the writing with my finger, andsmell the old paper, by now assmooth as sand.
Where - everyou are mom,I want to give you praise.Thank you for making the effort,andtaking the time,to stay connected in that way.
You wouldn’t believe in 2017
They rebooted DynastyDanielle and I binged all 5 seasons - in 2022.I told her about our love of the show
How we dished about the characters on the phone
How you wanted Linda Evans jaw line – which you hadand your carefully crafted letters in 1982.
If you’re not too busy, momorganizing things in your domain,I would love it if you dropped me a linesometime
Airmail
Even if not by plane!

-Par Avion, by Julie Potiker

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