Leading Wherever I Choose

Bonnie Smith Whitehouse’s journal for mindful walking takes its title from Walt Whitman’s poem, Song of the Open Road, which begins:

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.

Healthy, free, the world before me.

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. 

There are so many times we carry a heavy heart, the thought of being light hearted sings to me as I hope it does to you. I must remind myself to find things in my day, my week, my month that lighten my heart. I can think of a few off the top of my head, and I need to put them first on my plate, not “when I get around to them.”

In today’s meditation consider what lightens your heart, and move it to the top of your priority list.

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.