Today I choose to begin anew

Today I choose to begin anew.

I’ve never seen today before! What an offering, what an adventure, what a mystery…

What if it was the best day I was ever to experience? What if it was the worst? What would it change to know that now? How deeply would I inhale, how much would I savor?

I choose to begin anew with every sight that my brain labels as familiar. What is the color I always miss in that pattern? What is the nuance I never heard before from that word?

I choose to begin anew as if meeting you for the first time, humbled by your kindness and enthralled by your joy, in awe of your courage, in reverence of your wounds and drawn to your wisdom.

I choose to begin anew and discover my face, my eyes, my wrinkles, my body in the mirror—as if I had never met a sweetest friend to call home.

I choose to begin anew with every hour, no, every minute, every second! I choose to begin anew when the air touches my lip and then swim into my lungs. I choose to begin anew as the air dances out of me to share my gifts with the world, while releasing me from what no longer serves.

I choose to begin anew. Right here. Right now. Hi my name is leo… what's yours?