Lyrics of Awakening, right here

My daughter has written a poem for me to put to music.
On my computer I contemplate the meaning of each click.
For I want to do justice in keeping with the mood of each phrase.
And, hopefully, she'll feel discernment with each note I pick.

Her poem is titled, "Awakening, Right Here".

Lying on my belly face down
in my nest of shimmering tan
and bronze pine needles
under a tree at the cemetery.

Hanging out with Olive, my Nest Builder,
as she fine-tuned her little home built into the row of bushes.
Observing, deepening in, soaking up the sunshine.
Feeling the magnificence of this unseasonably warm October day.

Transcendent radiance and awe!
Soaking up days of being present.
Enjoying being right where I am.
Celebrating the honest simplicities of comfort, reverence, and joy.

Knowing in the deepest of my bones
that there is nothing that I should be doing
or need to be doing right now.
Being right where I am
is right where it's at.

After 5 days of minimal external activity,
my first walk in the long rays of the late afternoon Autumn sunlight,
everything is glorious, magnificent, beautiful, and inspiring.
Grateful, grateful for abundance, connection, Oneness, and celebration of being right here.
Right Here.

Hearing how my daughter has internally put her feelings into words.
My own emotions come up to the surface,
And I too become grateful
Grateful for the little things in life.

Right here... is where it's at!

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