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<p>Hi! I am back for your August Vlog. Here to dole out my gratitude, share from my heart, run over the August Community Calendar plan, and of course highlight some FWFG ONLY goodies. </p><p><br></p><p>Oh, and there is a poem too! And a blase Benji. </p><p><br></p><p>As I mention in this video, we have a special project in the works… just. for. you. So I do hope you stick around and stay tuned. (It’s not Beyonce, but it’s the NEXT best. I promise.)</p><p><br></p><p>What do you want to CULTIVATE more of in your life? </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fwfg.com/programs/yoga-calendar-august-2021-cultivate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find your AUG CALENDAR here.</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fwfg.com/categories/fwfg-exclusive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check out my unfolding Intermediate series Breathing Room here.</a> </p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://fwfg.com/categories/fwfg-exclusive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Visit with Rey for the Chakra Chats here!</a> </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Live your practice. </p><p><br></p><p>Yours, </p><p>Adriene</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Poetry read is <strong>The Summer Day by Mary Oliver </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Who made the world?</em></p><p><em>Who made the swan, and the black bear?</em></p><p><em>Who made the grasshopper?</em></p><p><em>This grasshopper, I mean—</em></p><p><em>the one who has flung herself out of the grass,</em></p><p><em>the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,</em></p><p><em>who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—</em></p><p><em>who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.</em></p><p><em>Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.</em></p><p><em>Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.</em></p><p><em>I don't know exactly what a prayer is.</em></p><p><em>I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down</em></p><p><em>into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,</em></p><p><em>how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,</em></p><p><em>which is what I have been doing all day.</em></p><p><em>Tell me, what else should I have done?</em></p><p><em>Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?</em></p><p><em>Tell me, what is it you plan to do</em></p><p><em>with your one wild and precious life?</em></p>