Monday, January 25, 2010

Only the lull I like

This place, where I am, right now, makes me feel alive.

Mostly, you know?

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death."

-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (I didn't know such a long poem could be so good.)

So don't forget to celebrate yourself. Don't forget to enjoy the lull, the lean and loafe. Thank your body for what it gives you.

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