First Monday--remembering to breath

Monday after holidays is a great test of resilience.  Kids pry themselves out of bed and rush back to school. Will they miss the bus?  Meetings and phone calls beckon, and let's not even talk about email.  Wow, what a great opportunity to breath.  My dear friend and colleague, Jill, reminds me that the difference between excitement and fear is one breath.  So, I breath and with each breath, renew my resilience and my excitement about what I look forward to.  And with each breath I find more energy to address what I need to in this moment.  For "this moment," the poet Rumi reminds us," is all there is."  I know, it seems so much easier to say these things when you are a Sufi master that lived in a very different time.  Yet, it's still true.  Every action, resolution, or step is taken moment by moment.