manifesto monday : on breathing, heart, and simplicity

i am overwhelmed...

with joy, with expectations, with passion, with solitude, with the goodness of simplicity.

i often find myself breathing deeply and deliberately with eyes resting shut.

i am taking my classes one word at a time...

reading one word at a time, writing one word at a time.

i've had to break it down.

i am in love with my mostly empty closet here,

in love with my simple bedroom...its walls bare, the furniture plain.

i am swooning over every word of poetry i read aloud...

i must read aloud and slowly and plainly so my heart and mind can comprehend.

i must tell you all how healing this is, i want all of you to experience it.

it is magic.

just re-read wordsworth's "the ruined cottage" and my heart and eyes and lungs

sighed.

magic.

i'm breathing deeply.

my heart both rejoices and aches

{rejoices for beautiful things i am learning, aches for ceej}.

i am overwhelmed.

this i believe.

{photo taken of me by ceej. june 2010}