Buddha Feet

Today, I pledge to be mindful of all things.

Too long have I lived in an intangible, pixelated universe of Word Documents and internet searches.

Today, I awake to the physical world around me. Instead of writing a to-do list, abstracting action, I will simply do.

I desire to feel everything. I seek to understand not just with my mind, but through my body.

Today, I meet the morning with bare feet:
Here is the quiet carpet in the hallway.
Here is the cold sement of the sidewalk.
Here is the damp, packed earth ready to freeze.
Here are the drops of night air clinging wet to my feet.
Here are the blades of grass warm in the sun.
Here are my feet, aching with cold.
Here is my body--in the air, in the sun, touching the earth.
Here am I.