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      • Poems >
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          • The Morning Quiet
          • On Why I Read Poetry
          • On Art
          • Our Song
          • Everything
          • Moonshine
          • Escape
          • Smiling Eyes
          • Mercy
          • Hey, Dad. Do You Remember Me?
        • Poems from Passion >
          • Part I >
            • When the Heart Beats
            • Let Me View Life- The Way the Heart Feels..
            • Little Girl
            • The Light
            • When I Called Her Name
            • Betwixt the Stars
            • Cherry Blossom's Bloom
            • The Smell of Rain
          • Part II >
            • Kissing Contusion
            • Inside Each Other's Kiss
            • Butterflies Break-
            • She Was Mad-
            • Fire and Ice
            • The Trace of Night
          • Part III >
            • The Moment Before Janet Arrived
            • She Didn't Know
            • I Pretend
            • Collapsed Star
            • My Heart Bleeds...
            • Love Divided
            • In Loving Memory
            • You Never Said Goodbye...
            • Life Teaches in Mysterious Ways
            • I Learned I was Valuable
            • I Choose to Burn
            • Good Love Doesn't Hurt
          • Part IV >
            • Daring Hearts
            • The Tides
            • She Fell
            • Your Presence
            • I'm Hungry-
            • The Seeker
            • Lady Compassion Waits
        • Love Notes... >
          • Good Morning, My Love...
          • Tell Me
          • Lean Back
          • All Through the Night...
          • Your Eyes
          • Every Heartbeat
          • Thanksgiving
        • Be Beautiful Poems >
          • Let Me
          • Look Up!
          • Water
          • In-Joy!
          • Amethyst
          • Call Me
      • Short Stories >
        • The Lady and the Sea
        • Olly and Mildred
        • Super FLy!
        • 1713 Maplewood Drive >
          • Official Teaser
        • Divine Grace
      • Inner Beauty Quotes >
        • Heart Series >
          • The Wind
          • The Heart
          • Connected Kisses
          • Beauty
          • Sweetness
          • Love Story
          • Emotion
          • Keep Close to your Heart
          • I Love to Feel
          • Saxophone Song
          • When the Lover Speaks
          • Shed My Flesh
          • Tongue Tied
        • Healing Series >
          • Break Me
          • The Process of Healing
          • True Nature of a Healer
          • Healing
          • In Order to Heal
          • Heal Yourself First
          • No Shame in Pain
          • Your Needs Come First
          • Heal the Self - Heal the World
        • Compassion Series >
          • Surrender
          • Love Yourself
          • Be Kind with Yourself
          • To Deeply Nurture Yourself
          • Feel What You Feel
          • Self-compassion is Courageous
          • To Surrender is to Accept
        • Creative Series >
          • Go with the Flow
          • Creativity is the Greatest Form of Conception-
          • A Writer
          • Good Poetry
        • Wisdom Series >
          • Spiritual Connection
          • Grow Your Garden
          • Life Happens
          • Creative Consciousness
          • Seek the Sensations Inside First
          • Allowing
          • Palms to Prayer-
          • Teach Other's Well
          • Sometimes... Life Steps In
          • Baby Steps
          • If You Don't Let Go and Grow-
          • It's Okay to Walk Away..
          • In Being One-
          • Opportunities
          • It's interesting...
        • Meditation Series >
          • Be the Example
          • Our Bodies Are Fluid-
          • Meditation is not just closing the eyes-
          • To Be Steady in Chaos
          • Silence
          • Awareness
          • Seeds of Light
        • Inner Strength Series >
          • Leave Your Mark
          • Trials
          • Those Who Strike-
          • Change Happens
          • Make Waves
          • Knowing Yourself
          • Courage 1
          • Courage 2
          • Strength
          • Transformation Doesn't Have to Hurt...
          • Embrace the Trials
          • Be Your Own Hero
          • Personal Power
          • Inspiration
          • Structure
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        • 1st Chakra >
          • Root Invocation
          • Root Chakra
          • Your Roots
          • Trust
          • Foundation
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          • 2nd Chakra Invocation
          • Sacral Shaped Chakra
          • The Womb
          • Rebirth
          • Comfort
          • Care for the Soul
          • Sweetness
          • Vulnerability
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          • Allowing 2
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          • What Makes You a Powerful Experince
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          • Be Light
          • JoY!
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        • BUY BE BEAUTIFUL
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        • BUY THE MANY TAILS
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100 DAYS OF APPRECIATION
DAY 3- A SNAIL'S PACE


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I decided to go back to the forest, to plant myself amongst the trees and unleash my spirit in the air, where wind and breath become a continuum of fresh born life. It was a cloudy day, pregnant with a swelled sense of rain but not a drop touched the ground. It was with each step forward that I unfolded through tiny wildflowers peeking through leaves and sticks, exotic mushrooms mounted on trees, and open-faced acorns awaiting complete consumption by frisky little critters lurking about. The trail was supposed to be 1.2 miles but time seemed to be moving at length and the path felt like it ran on forever. Every time I thought I completed the loop, I found myself walking more and more. I have to admit, I was feeling a little anxious. I was walking alone and the ground-scape bled seamlessly into the path so I had to pay attention to my footing very carefully. No sooner than I thought, “Am I headed the wrong way?” I heard a young couple walking up behind me. As they neared my location, I asked with an awkward chuckle, “Hey, does this trail ever end?” I was assured by the young man that we were close. At first, they followed me and again very awkwardly, I uttered, “Well, if we never get out of here, at least we have each other…” but the path veered in a direction further into the woods. Once we realized that, the young man took charge and redirected. Now, I was walking behind them.

Boy, they were movin’ and groovin’ at a rapid clip! Talking and laughing and moving swiftly by, just maneuvering with accuracy and skill; up and down small hills, squeezing through narrowing paths, stepping on top and underneath rocks, jumping over fallen trees and beyond! One foot in front of the other, onward they went! At first, I just wanted to keep up with them so I didn’t feel so alone or lost. Then I became curious as to how in the world they were conquering this path like some secret walking weapons of destruction or something. I was trying to keep up with them, my feet in rhythm and pace with theirs but the terrain could easily twist an ankle. I couldn’t imagine how fast they were going with such ease when I was deeply lung breathing to the point you could almost taste stagnation. I thought about youth and age and the differences in between, sweating through this fury to the end. Nothing in the path phased them and I was falling further and further behind.

Then I decided to just be me, go at my pace and come back to the ground where my steps followed the wild flowers and magic mushrooms. I deliberately slowed my pace and found my footing. I kept one eye on them and an inner eye on me. I moved gracefully and contemplative, engaging with the secrets and signature of nature, inside country. My lungs found breath, my body caught up with my feet, my heart rate balanced, harmonizing with the surroundings and I was present. I was moving but I was here and I was now. They were fading, moving out of my vision but I was here and I was now and then eventually, they were gone. Now just an apparition of others’ walking their own path. That’s when I stopped. I looked down and saw the pearlescent spiral of a shell, like a backpack of wisdom moving atop the rocks. It was a snail moving at his own pace, one meter at a time. I’ve never seen a snail in person before and then I heard the wind whisper, “When you slow down, you get to see what’s for you not for others.”

Love,
Jennifer
Gentle Touch Healing
www.jennifersmusin.com
100 Days of Appreciation, Tiny Poet, 10/29/2020
Healing through Compassion & Food for the Soul
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