if today was my last day alive...

Written By Chloë Rain

If today was my last day alive

I'd be glad that I admired the shadows on the beach the clouds make as they pass overhead

I'd not regret that ginger and molasses cookie I ate after lunch

I'd not regret saving the bee from the store front window.

I'd smile that I wore a skirt with flip flops and my hair long with bare skin and bare lashes, and no underwear

If today were my last day alive

I'd miss that warm embrace of my friend from earlier today but be glad I hugged him both coming and going and told him what a difference he'd made in my life

I’d hope I get to take with me to the other side, my memory of the three shades of blue I'd only just noticed today... 

One silvery blue, the reflection of the sky in the water

Two the blue at the horizon of the earth and clouds

Three the color of the wide open sky above the clouds

I can find no words to describe my new awareness of both heaven and earth

If today was my last day in this body

I'd be glad I learned to love life before it ended

And if I live beyond this moment I will cherish each day as if I'd been born every morning awake with new eyes

And a greater capacity to hug

And a great capacity to love

As if I'd been given a second chance, or brought back from the dead

Why am I alive?

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Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway, where she spent four years researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

Through her work she hopes to inspire more people to listen to their soul’s calling, and cause them to look a little closer at themselves, at the natural environment that surrounds them, and at other people and our beliefs of separation, race, culture, and religion.

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