Christmas Meets Nurturing Moment

Christmas Meets Nurturing Moment 

(contains lyrics by Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers)

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

There are a few of my favorite things

We have to start somewhere, why not start with joy?!

Not the giant or fantastic or even the miracle we so anxiously await in that baby’s birth,

But in the mundane, the every day, the little things that we see or notice for just a second longer than normal

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels

Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings

These are a few of my favorite things

And as we notice, pause..

Take a deep breath.. 

Let yourself really look, really feel, really hear, smell, see

Instead of having the details run together, smashed and blurry, wait

Let the scene clear, your eyes focus, your ears, nose, tongue linger 

Enjoy it

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

Silver white winters that melt into springs

These are a few of my favorite things

So enjoy them.

Acknowledge and allow them and whatever the feel like to be felt and to run deep

Feel it in your skin, through your bones,

Let the feeling permeate and swell in your heart

Even if only for the moment

Because this moment.. you can keep.

Hold on to it, lock it tight in your body and your lived experience

It is part of you, part of our story

It belongs to us and we own it

It is ours to have, and to experience again

At our choosing, whenever we need

When the dog bites

When the bee stings

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don’t feel so bad