15: mindful

a poem a day...

Mindful. Mindfulness.

This very practice is supposed to ground us, so does it? Do words really bring us hope, or do we just…hope that they will?

And howe do we show up to the questions at all?

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Are we mindful, 
really?

Or do we perform
even our mindfulness,
making it a routine
we practice for
the likes and the 
applause?

Can we separate
out the ego from
the true presence,
the writer from
the human being,
the curator from
the grown up child?

Sometimes it feels like
too much to be mindful
of mindfulness itself,
but we have to
to protect it from
the facades we hold,
so that we can show up
fully alive. 

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Friends,

Summer’s Magic comes out in just under TWO WEEKS!

I truly can’t believe it. Time is taking me for a wild ride.

I received my copies recently, and they turned out so beautifully. I can’t wait for you to meet Bo! So please preorder a copy or two (it’s on sale right now on Amazon), and mark your calendars, I’ve got some book events coming soon:

May 30 Launch Party, Puddlers App & Tap Beer Garden, Bridgeport, PA 6-8pm

June 8 Summer’s Magic book signing at BOOOKED Chestnut Hill, PA

June 9 Summer’s Magic book reading & signing Books of Wonder, NYC

June 15 Summer’s magic book signing Main Point Books, Wayne PA

July 6 Summer’s Magic reading & book signing Waterstone Outdoors, Fayetteville, WV

Can’t wait to celebrate Summer with you!