Hello beautiful human,
Yesterday I followed the energy and went through all the clothes in my closet and dresser, sorting out what I no longer wear (or never did) and boxing it up for the local consignment store. I titled a car to my oldest. I planted a tree. Big big energies moving through and I easily get carried away by enthusiasms.
It’s a fine line for me between following the energy and losing all focus. As I return to this daily practice each morning (it’s been almost three full months now) I can feel my creative impulses beginning to spark. Ideas! Possibilities! Squirrel!
Sometimes squirrel is the best idea. You never know.
So I’m grateful for this practice, showing up daily to fill this particular container. It reminds me to ground and slow down, to honor the core work, which continues to be simply to show up in my not-knowing, stretch into An Inviting Space and find connection in the moment: to myself, to the world outside my windows, and to you. I have big dreams and a summer coming to explore them. For this morning, I remember that my view from this writing desk now includes an elderberry bush and an apple tree and that wasn’t true even a week ago.
And yesterday evening I saw a bee at the apple blossoms.
“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.” - bell hooks
As I did all the things yesterday, cedar waxwings landed in the flowering and towering red maple outside, probably attracted by the nectar. They stayed for hours, flittering about and finding sweetness. Cedar waxwings travel in a flock. They’re very social birds I guess and they’re always looking for berries and flowers and the next good time. That’s how it feels anyway. And there I was in community and celebration, supported by a grandmother of a tree, scarred and healed and deeply rooted. I knoow it doesn’t always feel this way but I swear we’re surrounded by love and miracles.
Today’s invitation: What simple rituals and routines ground you and allow you space to imagine toward those big dreams? What are you grateful for today?
Some of the best advice I have been given is:
“Show up.
Be present.
Tell your little ‘t’ truth.”