When The Days Feel Six Years Long

Hey there.

Now that you are here,

Be here.

Be with this breath in and this breath out.

Give your mind time and space to quiet,

Abide,

Stay with this breath and this one.

Notice with curiosity and kindness your internal landscape.

Maybe you feel teeming or empty.

Maybe you are casting about like a tiny ship on a wild ocean.

Or feel as dry as Death Valley,

Tired and troubled,

Burdened like an ornery mule.

Maybe you feel untethered as if there's nothing holding you here.

Or maybe you feel as if you are being crushed by a brouhaha of stones.

Wherever you are inside,

However you are,

Be,

Abide with this breath and this one.

When your days feel six years long,

When your days feel like a country song,

When your days are a refrain that always feels the same love and pain and you don't know the difference between broken and torn,

Can you be so rooted within?

Can you be true of your song?

Can you be with this breath in and this breath out?

Abide,

Stay,

This breath,

This breath.

When your days feel six years long,

When your days feel like a country song,

When your days are that repeating refrain that's always the same love and pain and you don't know the difference between broken and torn,

Be,

Be rooted,

Be true of your song.

Let your heart and your head talk to one another.

Let them listen to one another.

And always know this,

Tomorrow is waiting for you.

Tomorrow is waiting for your smile.

Breathe in,

Breathe out.

Tomorrow is waiting for you.

Live light and shine.