Just as I’ve showed up

each day to write a poem,

I will show up each day

for Joy Meditation.

I will begin slow,

not take on too much,

and be patient as I learn,

taming my American way

of wanting to hurry

and arrive, not today but, yesterday.

                                                                                                        JDG

For those of you who might be interested, the Joy Meditation practice is

on pages 342-345 in THE BOOK OF JOY, an account of the week

Archbishop Desmond Tutu spent with the Dalai Lama

in celebration of the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday.