Awakening Rites

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature—if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you— Thus may you feel your pulse. - Henry David Thoreau, from Journal entry, 1850

Celebrate with gratitude for a morning awakening.

Use all the senses to walk into an examination of nature's delights.

Let nature's way enrich the ability to shake off despair and frustration.

Develop balance breath-by-breath.

Impossible requires patience until . . . I'm possible appears from the inside out. Just watch a spider and web in the rain.

Creativity permits one to make mistakes. Knowing those to keep develops art.

Notice what internal change reveals.

Discover morning rites of awakening.