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I want us to notice while we’re swimming, how powerful our leg and arm movements, both the expansive ones and the rapid little arcs that keep our heads above water, how the fluid medium in which we are submerged not only demands grace but teaches it, and how that grace makes everything easier and more pleasurable. I want to remind us, too, that we can suddenly remember the forgotten name or title, or the meaning of a word. We can count on the inspiration coming. We can trust the time. And we can know the right way to turn when driving through a place, whether we’ve been there before or not. It’s also worth noticing how often we blurt out something meaningful without meaning to, and how all we have to do is listen to ourselves to find our teacher. And by the way, whenever we stub our toes or bark our shins on unexpected obstacles in the night, we can let those encounters remind us how much easy power we put into every faithful stride without even thinking about it. That power is there within us: Power that emanates. Power that radiates. Power that animates. Inborn power that penetrates our being at all times. Still more, I want to remind us how many times we step effortless over cracks, how our feet find the right elevations on the stairs we negotiate, how our fingers find the notes or letters on our keyboards, or catch the falling stitches, or find the places that need touching on our lovers’ bodies, and in all these ways make our worlds more beautiful, how we can without thinking, real casual, reach out and grab from the air in flight the needed little things tossed our way by helpful friends. And if we suspend a hammock between two sturdy trees, let us also remember how these trees grew joyfully from slender saplings and built their monumental strength from nothing but soft air and sunshine and moistened earth and a thousand summer rains. We can let that kind of strength support us in our rest, and we can feel it in ourselves looking skyward through those branches, and we can let it carry us onward when again we rise, renewed.