My friend shared this poem with me.

Adrift

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief. The light spraying
through the lace of the fern is as delicate
as the fibers of memory forming their web
around the knot in my throat. The breeze
makes the birds move from branch to branch
as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost
in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh
of the next stranger. In the very center, under
it all, what we have that no one can take
away and all that we’ve lost face each other.
It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured
by a holiness that exists inside everything.
I am so sad and everything is beautiful.

Mark Nepo, 1951-

Yesterday, I held another Pop Up Yoga in the Park session (Green Lake, Seattle) at 6pm and the experience was so beautiful. The cherry blossoms were at their peak. As we did yoga, the grass felt soft and fresh.  The sun was warm and the air smelled of spring. Around us birdsong and the occasional chirp of hummingbirds. Class took place from 6pm-7pm. A half moon graced the sky.

I felt my yoga community holding me up, feeling and understanding the unspoken.

How could a setting be so beautiful in the face of loss? Hanging on and letting go, doubting and believing, moving backward, moving forward, and staying present. Delicate tears fall softly on cool grass.

Universal consciousness encompassing us all. Love all around us. Toni-Love.

One day at a time.

Photos are from yesterday’s Yoga in the Park Pop Up! If you’d like to be added to my Yoga in the Park mailing list so that you can receive emails about future Pop Up Hatha Yoga classes at Green Lake Park in Seattle (we meet by the Bathhouse Theater/Seattle Public Theater), include your email address in a message below. Various days and times coming your way as weather and my schedule permit.