day four: know your soul (fun-a-day)

Not a great picture today - I'll post a better one later. I also hope to embroider this on a different paper, but for now, at 11pm after an 11 hour day, I'm heading to bed.

But first, the inspiration for today's affirmation/intention. I stumbled across this poem today by Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass, a 1942 copy that I've had for years but have never opened:

I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,

To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,

To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is
     enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly
     round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?

I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.

There is something in staying close to men and women and looking
     on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the
     soul well,

All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

Love this.