We breathe an average of 20,000 times a day and as many as 800 trillion times over an 80 year lifespan. Every breath is a unique expression of life, a moment of living identity.

Three Deep Breaths

Something Beautiful
A dancer poised
Unmoved by the 
Rising sun,
Clouds imperceptibly
Float by.
We turn
Ever so slowly
Delicately balanced on
Mother Earth.














Breath Meditation
Breath, like a 
Dimmer switch
Floats downward
Quieting brain.
Face and jaw release,
Shoulders melting
Energy cascades
Through my body
Into Mother Earth.
She carries me.
Naked, without thought
Or pretense,
I greet this day.