Three Guests

Today I'd like to invite three themes

To appear before us
and in our company

like three guests

like three friends or acquaintances.

We know their names
but we don't know them

like we don't fully know other people:
their reality is more
than our easy knowledge of them

and ultimately they speak for themselves.

The three guests are

• Gratitude
• Self Care
• Practice

Let's hope to entertain them
set them at ease
and hear what they have to say.

Now that we have called them here
they seem ready to tell us things

or respond to questions

Like, what news do you bring?

How are your children?

What do you like to do on your days off?

Are you two acquainted?
How long have you known each other?

And we also might be be-wondered
What is our relationship
with these three guests?