Mental Health Day Agenda

   ~ "God wants nothing of you
but the gift of a peaceful heart."
 - Meister Eckhart

Unplug the phone,
turn off the computer;
eight blissfully
disconnected hours.

Retreat.

Feed kindling
to the fire;
potter about
the cabin;
chop some wood;
read a little Rilke
and Rumi.

Grade some papers;
listen to Scarlatti;
sip a wee dram
of bourbon;
slip into violent,
fitful naps
on the porno couch.

Edgy, uncertain,
un-ease, dis-ease.

Seek the Way back.

Take a long, quiet
walk in the woods -
no noise, no people -
listen intently
to the leaf-song,
become the breeze.

Today, I am
more comfortable
with birds
than humans,
they squawk less.

Why this disturbance
in the field?

Let it go
live its own life.

I'm busy with mine.
  - mce