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This morning some friends were eager to share how they covered their hands in chalk. This naturally led to a conversation about the unique nature of hands and how there is NO ONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD with your exact fingerprints. This reminded me of one of my favorite poems I’d like to share:

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it—I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.

          

I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts.

 

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know—but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.

     

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.

    

I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me.

   

I am me, and I am Okay.” -Virginia Satir

To all our wonderful Wee Friends—Wee love you!

-Jessica

Wee Sprouts: Cucumbers. Breakfast: Rice cakes with peanut butter and pear slices. Lunch: Homemade chicken salad sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh tomatoes, and bananas. Snack: Hummus and blue corn chips.