This is the question.

Thankful for Mary Oliver’s resonant words and my mentor, Amy Wright Glenn, for first turning me on to this beautiful poem. It is my mission to help people awaken to the gift of the present through mindfulness. Because, once we train our brains to handle the stress and the inner critic and endless chatter with more ease, then we will be open to irreplaceable moments and truly living our one wild and precious life. And this is a life without much regret.

Listen to the full version of this poem I read in the clip below.

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

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