Thursday through Sunday I’ll be in a Sensory Awareness workshop at Green Gulch Zen Center with Lee Klinger Lesser titled How does my love for life want to express itself?  She suggests we bring an object or symbol that represents how our love for life wants to express itself in the midst of these times that we are living.

As I reflect on this, two poems of Naomi Shihab Nye come to mind.  One is called “Kindness”.  The other is “So Much Happiness”.  

You can find both poems at poets.org.

Here is the last stanza of “So Much Happiness”.

Since there is no place large enough 

to contain so much happiness

you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you

into everything you touch. You are not responsible.

You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit

for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, 

and in that way, be known.