How is Your Heart Today, My Friend?

I watched two gentlemen greet each other at the coffeehouse this morning.

“Kayf haal-ik” they cried out. Meaning, ‘how is your heart today’?

So often, we become caught up in the ‘doing’ of life. We become over-scheduled, over-burdened, over-tired – we lose the joy in ‘just simply being.’

I remember when my children were much younger. “Why haven’t you enrolled him yet,” asked the mother of a very young friend. At just 7-years-old, her son had more activities planned than a presidential envoy overseas.

In contrast, I asked my children to be wanderers and explorers. To climb trees, and scrape their knees – to come home with a little dirt rubbed into their pants. I wanted them to learn to take chances, to swing from life’s branches – to measure time by way of the sun’s position in the sky.

And, at the end of the day, come home exhausted – simply from this ‘task’ of being human.

Kayf haal-ik – how is your heart today, my friend?  Sit with me, in this space, and connect – please, for just a little while. Share with me, your deepest thoughts – and help me to understand.

In this space of connection – there is no facade, no ceremonious putting on of airs. Just two hearts, coming together – with a reminder of what it is to be human.

So now, tell me – please, my dearest darlings; how is your heart today?

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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