Crickets Beneath My Pen

College ruled lines on the paper

Clean, crisp and fresh

Waiting patiently—excitedly

For the flow of fresh ink

With a sweeping motion

The writer's hand with right posture

Dances the pen to paper

Waiting for the music to begin

Only to find stillness

Beneath it are crickets

Stillness is an Option

Delivered through the lips of the yoga instructor, "stillness is an option."

A single and short phrase of something so profoundly simple, easily overlooked as an option in the life filled with a calendar of distractions, hurried decisions, wasted with worry and fear.

The slavery to continue doing or saying, without pause, compounding exponentially. 

The natural flow of deep breathing constricted as the heart beats rhythm out of control.

There exists divine permission to do or say nothing—until you can again. From an open space, a more loving and compassionate place.

The world will wait. Stillness is an option.

Have you ever had moments when the more you say the worse things seem? Like painting a mistake on a piece of canvas, adding more and more layers of paint of correction only to create a muddy mess. Have you considered taking the path of stillness as an option?

Quiet Mind

As my mind

 becomes a quieter,

gentler place, 

the noise

 from the outside world,

 seems to be getting 

louder.

Sometimes too loud.