WOW

Reading from Wednesday, June 12, 2013 yoga class

Anne Lamott has a new book entitled "Help Thanks Wow" 3 essential prayers.  I have read several of her books, which I enjoyed.  WOW is what I shared with class today. 

WOW 

Is a child seeing the ocean for the 1st time

A teenager's secondhand Christmas car

John Muir

Walt Whitman

Mary Oliver saying "the sun was the best preacher that ever was"

WOWS come in all shapes and sizes. 

Lowercase WOWS

When you crawl between clean sheets after a hard day

Poppies blooming in a field that was destroyed by a grass fire the summer before

Seeing a baby anything... kittens, dogs, turkeys, baby birds (this is my lowercase WOW)

Uppercase WOWS

Autumn days

Yosemite

Fireworks

Watching puppies being born

The planets

That we ended up on the one planet where someone thought up Monopoly and Oreos

Beer

Rock n' Roll

My Uppercase WOWS

Seeing a Red Tail Hawk flying above me

Clifty Falls State Park

John Denver

Beech Trees...in fact, ALL trees

Spring is the main reason for WOW--being all hope, beauty and glory--buds opening--bright green grass--blue skies--In Spring we stretch and expand in all directions.

Autumn ain't so shabby for WOW--Colors are broccoli and flame--the tang is apples, death and wood smoke--the rot smells faintly of grapes, fermentation--the air moist--and you sleep under 2 down comforters in a cold room. 

So... what would your WOWS be??  Lowercase, Uppercase.  A nice thing to think about.