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There is alot of space between the moon and us (yearly holiday poem in comments)

Sharing my yearly holiday poem

 

Blessings one and all

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

I have been thinking a lot about the space between the moon and me

 

Someone picked a card for me during my vertigo flare up of someone standing in a clearing looking

up at the moon

The message was, there is a lot of space between you and the moon

That in between space

 

My doctor wants me to make changes for my health

As I unpack my habits, my choices, release fear without losing motivation

I think about that space: the preparing, releasing, accepting, the awareness of all the things before

we “land on the moon” we seek

 

As I look up, I see my two pots of Christmas cacti

Preparing for their final dance of releasing their skirts

They are beautiful in their releasing

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

This morning, I made a honey coffee in a tiny French press from my adagio advent calendar

 

Then I made instapot oats:

2 cups oats

2 cups dark chocolate almond milk

2 cups vanilla oat milk

A dollop of blueberry honey

A handful of chocolate chips, frozen raspberries, frozen cherries

A pinch of coconut

A pinch of chopped almonds

10 minutes on manual setting

Release

Added chopped peanuts and vanilla yogurt before serving

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

I sit at the kitchen table

Where yesterday I planted a drooping amaryllis bulb and see now it is starting to stand up straighter

and stronger

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

Where do I want to invest my energy?

Where do I have an invested interest?

If I don’t carve out space for myself, who will?

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

I stop and do commencement

Breathe in breathe out

Lift my arms up, lift my arms down

This rotates my spine, releases stress

Brings calm, stimulates the vagus nerve

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

I also planted four pots of paper whites though they only provided one

Two of the pots were thrifted tea pots form last week’s church holiday tea

I see their stalks poking up, sense their energy

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

Planting bulbs

Eating oats

Sipping coffee

Pre-contemplation of the invested interest

In change for myself

Commencement

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

Will I be like the amaryllis?

Able to stand up straighter and stronger

Will I be like the cacti?

Releasing skirts as I dance

 

There is a lot of space between the moon and us

 

Written by: Tanya Levy

December 8, 2024

Yearly holiday poem

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