This year
on the day they call Christmas
Team Emelle wakes up
wondrously severed
from its culture’s insidious story
about stars and shepherds
wise men, stables and saviours.
Team Emelle is curiously deaf
to the seductive calls
of collective consciousness
to make of this date something special.
It greets the day with a deep bow,
celebrating its everyday sanctity
with gratitude and wonderment.
It tends the Great Light
known as Primordial Wisdom Awareness
(as befits its Dharma name, Yeshe)
with its own private rituals
custom-created
on its unique journey
through time’s long now.
It tends creation’s original Word
by sitting,
breathing,
in solitary, silent, stillness.
Breath is its prayer
and its practice.
Breath.
It tends the manger
in the Heart’s stable
– the soul’s sanctuary –
where the ever newly-born,
uncorrupted
Child
dwells in comfort and safety.
Team Emelle doesn’t buy
into the marketplace mindset.
It knows of only one present sure
to give happiness and joy,
one (omni)present that can’t be bought,
wrapped, given or owned…
a l i v e . a w a r e . p r e s e n c e
Artwork by Miriam Louisa Simons – Breathscribe series: I am here, detail.
Since the Miriam Louisa composite is made up of of many characters, to say nothing of 37.2 trillion cells and a roughly equal population of bacteria, I have come to think of it as Team Emelle.
Emelle = ML
ML = Miriam Louisa
All smiling and bowing at you right now!
Primordial Wisdom Awareness is also known as The Great Perfection
echoes from emptiness 
Good to see you teaming with life on Christmas Day, ML. Remember, apoptosis rules! 😉
Gawd Hariod, I had to Google that. The Team has not been deeply steeped in biological info. We say “Mercy!” – no apoptosis would be like no sewage system in the system… not a fragrant thought.
🙂
(((((((Team Emelle))))))
Yo Team Elesse!!! ❤
May you have a positive, joy-filled 2017 ML *smiles and kisses her cheek*
– esme jingling her bells upon the Cloud
The Team is particularly partial to kisses from clouds – but do you have enough to go round? We are legion – apoptosis or no. [Hehe H]
Have a splendid orbit of the sun in 2017 dear Esme. You are a deeply appreciated fellow fluffy-head on this great adventure.
❤
There is no I in team 🙂 another thought…Walt Whitman’s I contain multitudes
Wonderful Walt! Love to Team DeePee (how cute’s that?)
❤
Luscious! Thank you, Louisa! You bring sanity to the day.
Amrita, my dear companion on this journey into sanity … thank you! May your 2017 be blessed with all that brings awareness of your ever-bubbling joy!
❤