Wise Mindfulness, A Tall Order

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I want to say I’m ok with the news, the polls, the weather, my friends, my family.
I want to say that, but plenty of times I’m just not.
I’m anxious or impatient or fearful or just flat out exhausted.

Mindfulness invites me to step back, observe what I’m feeling, and not flinch.
And not only not flinch, but welcome whatever I see.
Welcome, and then love.

And then also do better: be a little kinder and wiser the next time.

It’s a tall order, and it gets taller.
Because mindfulness also invites me to notice (or realize?)
that whatever I see in myself is pretty much true for everyone.
Which I take as an invitation to not flinch from anyone else either,
to welcome whatever everyone else is bringing as well,
and to love everyone else, too.

And then, to do better for the world:

to keep working as hard as I can for change.