TSMD - September 2021 Newsletter - Possibilities
September Greetings
Happy September!
I hope you’re making time to engage with the people and activities that bring you comfort and joy. Here are a few ways to care for yourself today:
Make time to stretch.
Reach out to friends and family whose company you cherish.
Enjoy some calming music.
Prepare a nourishing meal for yourself.
As the summer comes to a close and we celebrate the coming of autumn, enjoy this poem about possibility by Maggie Smith:
Good Bones
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
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