I Am Me ~ Poem by Virginia Satir

I Am Me

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me
Everything that comes out of me is authentically me
Because I alone chose it – I own everything about me
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
Whether they be to others or to myself – I own my fantasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears – I own all my triumphs and
Successes, all my failures and mistakes Because I own all of
Me, I can become intimately acquainted with me – by so doing
I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts – I know
There are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other
Aspects that I do not know – but as long as I am
Friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously
And hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me – However I
Look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever
I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically
Me – If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought
And felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is
Unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that
Which I discarded – I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be
Productive to make sense and order out of the world of
People and things outside of me – I own me, and
therefore I can engineer me – I am me and
I AM OKAY

Today’s Quote on Discovery by Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

My Life Has Been the Poem ~ Poem by Henry David Thoreau

My Life Has Been the Poem

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.

By: Henry David Thoreau

Today’s Quote by Maslow on Appreciation

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Abraham Maslow

 

Enjoy A Music Moment ~ Oscar Peterson & Oliver Jones Performing “Just Friends”

 

Enjoy a Music Moment with Tom Petty Performing “I Won’t Back Down”

 

Today’s Quote by St. Joan of Arc on Faith and Courage

“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”

— Saint Joan of Arc

My Star ~ Poem by Robert Browning

My Star

All that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue;
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartless the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?  
Mine has opened its soul to me, therefore I love it

– Robert Browning

A Music Moment ~ Miles Davis Jams with Santana and Robben Ford

This Will Take Your Breath Away

Today’s Quote by Monet on Seeing

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Claude Monet

Verified by MonsterInsights