Take Three Breaths

When I saw this was the practice for the week,

I welcomed it like an old friend.

At last!

A week to just breathe in response to all that 

would be coming my way.

Little did I know...

New work relationships

Congress' resistance to background checks

Boston!

Health challenges

Exhaustion

Each time I responded to life with 3 breaths, I came back to now.

I got out of my head and all the stories that were trying to get attention.

I became reacquainted with what was real, right here before me,

and released, over and over again, that which I could not change.

I quit grasping and resisting.

At least for those moments following my

Three Breaths.