Your Soul Food for Friday January: Spoken Word, Great Things Happening Every day, your 4 Pillar Wellbeing Kit and Hold on to Your Heart!

Happy Soul Food Friday!

This week:

Inspiration from the 20^th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium at USD:

Last week I had the privilege and opportunity to help shape and participate in the 20^th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium at USD.

The In the Spirit of Leadership session in the afternoon, included a 10-minute nonstop writing exercise, along with a mindfulness practice, and some affirmations.

While I love writing and word play, this was new territory for me, and the writing exercise unleashed another creative dimension of my inner self, that came out unedited, in one flow experience, with pen to paper for the duration, until we were told to stop and come back inside.

Thanks to Causmosis, Dr. G and Dr. Y for an amazing conference and unleashing a different aspect of my authentic self!

Here goes:

Causmosis Made Me Do It

Top of mind, this is an experiment in open cognitive/emotional expression,

Where I go, I do not know- just flow baby flow.

Towards the abyss, I cannot miss,

The arrow hits the target the eye cannot see,

The guru within comes out in me,

I am emerging, growing, nearly free,

Free to be fully me!

I stand in the hallowed halls of grace,

I cradle my young self by the face,

Mistakes are forgiven trace by trace,

The irony, the tyranny are dissolved in the synchrony…

Reaching out on bended knee,

Bruises do not tattoos be,

I am not blind, I surely see,

Into thee I see.

Into thee I see.

Is this my very first spoken word?

Birthed of creativity in the theater of the absurd,

Expressed from sorrow to be heard,

Why did I wait to flip the bird- to doubt, to fear, to lack of faith?

Affirmations simply cannot wait!

It’s time to walk, how straight the gait,

I’m living freely for heaven’s sake!

In symphony with those around,

I hear birds sing in the background,

I feel my feet right on the ground,

My spirit soars its heaven bound.

Causmosis sits to my left,

She wields her pen with deft and depth,

Inspiring artists want to know,

What performance plays in the “inside” show?

And so, I write and write and write,

My grip is failing- pressure tight,

Is this from gripping this little pen,

Or fear of failing littler men?

Who can say?

What do I know?

It’s time to end,

This delightful show.

WORD!

Great Things Are Happening EVERY Day, but you don’t Hear About Them:

These stories don’t bleed, and so they don’t lead but here is some positive news to offset all the bad stuff that saturates our media, day in and day out.

66 Good News Stories You Didn’t Hear About in 2023 (futurecrunch.com)

One Good Thing: why you need to create your own 4-pillar wellbeing kit for better mental health:

stylist.co.uk/health/mental-health/four-pillar-wellbeing-toolkit-one-good-thing/857606

Hold On to Your Heart!

Our closest living relatives can recognize family members and long-lost friends, even after decades of separation.

Chimps and bonobos recognize friends, relatives they haven’t seen in decades : NPR

Thanks this week go to Dr. G, Dr. Y, Lorreta T, Brenda S, Vivian M (aka Causmosis) and Charles S.

Stop monkeying around doggone it, and please pay it forward today!

Love,

Neville

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“An individual has not started living

until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns

to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.