EverydayBliss: Meditation with Emily Dickinson

Our front "prairie."

Listening to right now: Jolie Holland

Today's Happiness Formula: A sunny and extremely quiet Saturday -- as if everyone is gone and it's just us.

Following My Bliss by: Spending time outside, putting in baby lettuces and sweet peas and snapdragon's. Tending to the "grounds," as we like to teasingly call them.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

--Emily Dickinson

I know many people find Emily a bit on the obscure side, but I think she comes down to some pretty simple (meaning basic, not easy) principles: mindfulness and expansiveness.

If we approach her poems like meditations -- as we should all poems, really -- eventually they reveal themselves to us.

Spend some time this weekend with this Emily. It seems particularly appropriate right now.

What prairie are you looking to create?