YES!

except from The Art of Non-Conformity

In the Rock-Paper-Scissors game of life, every day we have endless choices.

Door A or B, blue or red pill, etc. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Hope beats fear
2. Abundance beats scarcity
3. Yes beats no

That thing you’re working on today – will it matter one year from now? If so, great. Keep doing that. If not, why are you doing it?

BE

Embrace where you are right now, and while you're at it, embrace the idea that you could be here - right where you are - for the rest of your life. If you find yourself unable to embrace that idea, then you just may be right where you are for the rest of your life.

We cannot know where we may be tomorrow. Oh, we think we can, but we can't, really. We construct nice, tidy scenarios for our lives. We may even build in a few wonderful options, like winning the lottery. We shy away from the options that frighten us. Fact is that what frightens us, owns us. Fact is that our nice, tidy scenarios limit us. Fact is that only by embracing the mystery of it all, only by embracing the fact that we know nothing - we know NOTHING! - can we be without the pain and annoyance of wanting what we do not have.

BE.

I found this again in my inbox... it had been saved for a good reason. sometimes words hit you over the head and these did just that... again...embrace the idea that you could be here - right where you are - for the rest of your life. If you find yourself unable to embrace that idea, then you just may be right where you are for the rest of your life.

this is from the Sacred Earth Seven Element Tarot... a beautiful daily reminder of life.

nearing the end...

of my writing retreat. i have started to look back over all i have done. i am not sure i accomplished much in the "real world" but i cannot help but think i have done amazing things in my physical and emotional body.

i have been dreaming vivid, huge, impactful dreams. i cannot remember most of them upon awakening but i somehow feel different. like my entire body is somehow regrowing, regenerating and transforming into something much more able to live in a constant state of love, peace and flexibility.

kayaking yesterday i had a blissful experience of pushing my body too hard and relaxing it completely into the boat and the water and the world around me. i have never been able to easily do this. i have great fears come up when thinking of myself in this tiny boat sitting a top a vast deep body of cold salt water. i have great respect for the water and i know at any moment it can snap my life clean away. but yesterday my goal was not how to fastest get back to land but how to experience my body, in this boat, the wind, the waves the creatures and the deep teal and ever changing rich blue shades of water and land.

this is the dance i am striving to bring back as i prepare to re-enter the normal daily life. the beauty of the dance, the surrender to trust, the ability to look around and take it all in. to love, to see, to play, to push, and surrender.

see you on the flip side.