Earth hour today!

Celebrate the Earth hour! Bhakti yoga – yoga of devotion and love is the theme. Let your compassion for Earth and humanity guide you through the day. For one hour today shut off your lights, computers, TV’s and such! What to do? Go for a walk, hike or run, make love; drink wine in the dark; light candles; watch the stars; sleep. Got better idea? Let me know!

I THOUGHT THE EARTH REMEMBERED ME

she took me back so tenderly,

arranging her dark skirts, her pockets

full of lichens and seeds.

I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed.

nothing between me and the white fire of the stars

but my thoughts, and they floated lights as moths

among the branches of the perfect trees.

All night i heard the small kingdoms

breathing around me, the insects,

and the birds who do their work in the darkness.

All night I rose and fell, as if in water,

grappling with a luminous doom. By morning

I had vanished at least a dozen times

into something better. - Mary Oliver

Twelve Moons, by Mary Oliver