Join Julie Potiker as she leads you through this loving kindness meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Mountain Forest: Early Summer", by Joan Koerper.
Mountain Forest: Early Summer
Raven cawsLadybug lands on my fingertwo California Quail mosey byBand-Tailed Pigeons coobreeze tickles leaves and pollinated blossomsof the hundred-year-old Apple treesas Buddha, seashells in folded hands, offers thanks.Sap from Jeffrey Pines glistensMistletoe grows lustily, greedy to overcomeall other plants nearby.Wild Miner's Lettuce thrives to nourish.Robin lands in the Flowering PlumFinches, Steller's Jay, Black-Capped Chickadeesjoin travelers visiting feeders on shepherd's hooksand sip water in planter drainage saucers.Perfume from late-blooming Lilacsdrifts over my shoulderas Periwinkles on the vine claim a garden.
Squirrel arrives for her peanuts.Lizard says hello, then scurries for boulder.Raven makes a line drivefor the Band-Tailed Pigeonswho burst upward in flight escapingto the north side of the mountain valley.
Saraswati, standing four-feet tall,buried under seven feet of snowonly ten weeks ago, is once againdancing her eternal circle of protectionby the front door.
Strawberry Full Moonsteadily travels her courseto illuminatethe multitudinous miracles of startdustThe Forest of Cloudless Night.
-Joan/MJ Koerper

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