It is not enough to fortify inner strengths as I continue to age
My change in attitude must do more than
Embrace joy that has been offered to me in
A heartfelt manner, like a banquet served upon a silver platter
If I know that joy is an inside job then
Any change for the better in my attitude must focus upon
Sustaining a soulful sense of joy from deep within my heart by
Coaching myself to fully embrace this late stage of life in
A whole new way: In short, I need to embrace every day of
Good health as reason to celebrate my existence by
Reminding myself that many lives are not as enriched as
Proves true of mine, which has, thus far, offered me
The good fortune of engaging healthily with advacing age while
My spirit is buoyed on the wings of treasured friends and
Familial love, and now that my spirit guide’s intuitive voice has
Spotlighted the mental challenge that today's string of insights has
Just served up to my intelligence, my conscious awareness has
Come to see the missing piece that my sense of wholeness has been
Seeking during these confounding weeks of mental transition, which
By no means offered my conscious mind so much as a glimpse of
The safe haven of the shoreline upon which inner peace has been
Playing hide and seek with my think tank for months
So, thankfully, now that today’s string of insights has finally (and simply)
Spotlighted, clarified and named this positively focused
Change for the better (namely need to inject my daily attitude with
Joy by creating surprises for others, a specialty of mine), which
Has been brewing ever since last summer when our very sad loss of
Will’s brother (the third in a series of family losses) alerted
My connection to common sense to steady my readiness to
Address how best to react to losses that are bound to increase in
Number, my emotional intelligence has hopefully opened
A new door within the positively focused portion of
My thought processor, which houses my creative center's
Proclivity toward proactivity, which has eagerly awaited
The arrival of my conscious awareness so as to restoke
My spirit with childlike joy, which freely evokes the same degree of
Inquisitive eagerness to enjoy new experiences by embracing
The open-minded attitudes with which Tony, Ray and Ravi greet
Each new day of their young lives ... Oh yes—one more thing:
This change that I'm choosing to create within my mind space
Does not mean that grief will not find me and overwhelm
My spirit with sadness; This change for the better signifies that
Grief will not blind me to joy waiting in the wings to
Freely dance the light fantastic across center stage in the aftermath of
Each grief filled period of time that is sure to challenge
My mind, heart and spirit to accept irretrievable loss, repeatedly ...
BTW, if you missed last night's CBSCarol Burnett Special, please
Seek it out On Demand—Thank goodness, my spirit felt eager to inhale
The timeless comic genius of Carol's brilliant slapstick-pratfall humor, which
Sparked my spirit to laugh aloud for two hours straight—replacing
The cortisol secreted, naturally, before growth spurts, hotwired to spotlight
Inner conflict, based in subconscious discontent, has turned
The corner whereby today's spirit-lifting sense of
Heartfelt pleasure to be alive has, once again, been actualized
"Once someone asked me how old do I really feel
And I said I feel 8, 9, 10 or 11"
— Carol Burnett at age 84
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