This week I attended a mindfulness retreat and our assignment was to write a non-stop, quick answer to this very important question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
So, I am sharing my commitment with you:
I will help people learn how to cope with life’s challenges by sharing coping, and resiliency skills to help them create more joy in their lives. I will do this by listening to others and responding with programs and resources that I have access to share. I will share these resources through classes, lectures, publications, events, HappyGoLuckyGirl and Healthy Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods Health Coalition and social media. I will continue to learn about more resources that I can share. I will help create a peer to peer, community health ambassadors’ program so others can teach these skills to their peers.
Enjoy the poem below that inspired the question!
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
So, please do share your plan with us!
(-Aspiring to be a) Joy Spreader
