Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to explore a contemplation on what to do with your one wild and precious life.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.

Okay, so this will be a short episode where I share a merry Oliver poem called The Summer Day.

You can view all the poems I share here as a form of meditation. Let yourself listen deeply and see how it impacts you at this particular moment of your life.

Again, this is called The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.

Who made the world? Who made the swan and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean, the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down.

Who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last and too soon?

Tell me, what is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Thank you for your practice. I'll talk to you tomorrow, and until then, take care.

See you tomorrow.