Mindful Musings Blog

Poems of Presence – Summer 2025

Summer! These poems and quote reflect our weekly mindfulness class themes, and remind us of who we really are and how we want to be.

photo by Nancy Beckerman

Staying Open

Because (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)

 

Appreciation and Gratitude

Involuntary (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)

 

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life … I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others.”
― The Dalai Lama
 

Connection

Try Softer (Andrea Gibson)

Breathing Peace (Cristina Norcross)

Any Life (Andrea Gibson)

“This will be our reply to violence; to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before” ~ Leonard Bernstein

Show Up (Jeff Foster)

Sacred Pause (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)

“When things get difficult remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.” (anonymous)

 

Inner Light

Encouragement (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)

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