Late August 2025
I look skywards a lot lately, like anticipating rain and wet earth and streams and springs and life.
The number four has come up a lot for me lately. Four is a number associated with the heart and the four cardinal directions that lead it. Listening and developing my heart center has been an ongoing challenge. When I try to open my heart, I take deep inhales with deeper exhales. I like to think that a heartbeat is closely linked with breathwork, with measures in time. I wrote four haikus that you can expand below. When you read, think of each expansion of the poem as an inhale, as an exhale. Their beat, their pattern, in 5-7-5 is like the beating of my heart. I wrote four of them because I am searching for where my heart leads me.
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Where water flows endlessly
Beyond mystery
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How liberating is that?
A blinding beauty
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But a deep shattering?
I break open to heal
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Until water ran through me
Beyond what I knew
