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Oct 27

Go Astray

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”― Meister Eckhart

“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”― Meister Eckhart

The path is rarely straight and smooth.
Take the detours.
Pull off to rest areas.
Go off trail.
Follow the winding road.
Pump the brakes.
Enjoy the scenery.
We arrive eventually.
And then start again and again, always from a new place.
Don’t miss the beauty, joy and delight of the journey focused only on the destination.
Go astray.
You are not lost, you are on the way.

“We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.”― Meister Eckhart

Oct 7

Good at Astonishment

“Once you have gathered enough silence,
silence gathers you.”― Ivan M. Granger

“It took a lot of nerve for someone so ignorant of true wilderness to fashion herself as a nature writer, but the flip side of ignorance is astonishment, and I am good at astonishment.”― Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

May you fashion yourself to try new things.
To jump in the deep end, flounder, discover your buoyancy.
To dare to travel unfamiliar roads.
To seek adventure in foreign lands of your dreams.
Get good at astonishment.
We need more beginners, tryers and explorers.
Daring to become themselves and share it with the world.

“Through you
the world learns
to recognize itself— as heaven.”― Ivan M. Granger

Sep 26

Trusting in Advance

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”― Philip Yancey

“One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.”― Gary Haugen

Don’t bypass, skip, miss the adventure.
Say “no” often to make room for more “yes’s”
The right things, ordinary moments, beauty woven in each day.
Detours, delays, rerouting all apart of the journey, not inconveniences, but inflection points.
People, places, spaces to enter, reside and celebrate this very short ride.
No regrets.

“No” is a complete sentence.”― Annie Lamott

Aug 31

Ride the Air

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” – Toni Morrison

“The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Get a new perspective, a fresh view, a different angle
Loosen your grip, open your heart
Release thoughts of scarcity, comparison, someday when, not enough
In moments, in this day, and all it took to arrive
You are more than enough, complete and imperfect
Ride the air
Pockets of joy and delight
Sit here awhile for the work to be completed in you.

“What’s your best discovery?” asked the mole.

“That I’m enough as I am,” said the boy.”

― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Jun 20

Unknown Places

“In moments of insecurity and crisis, shoulds and oughts don’t really help; they just increase the shame, guilt, pressure, and likelihood of backsliding. It’s the deep yeses that carry us through. It’s that deeper something we are strongly for that allows us to wait it out. It’s someone in whom we absolutely believe and to whom we commit. In plain language, love wins out over guilt any day. It is sad that we settle for the short-run effectiveness of shaming people instead of the long-term life benefits of true transformation.”― Richard Rohr, The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder

“Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), the great American essayist, said “nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.” What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.”― Richard Rohr, The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder

Wander off path today.
To unknown places within yourself.
Covered up, put away, not done.
Beauty, unfolding, bold.
With wonder, curiosity and joy, let light in.
Break the rules, change the story, allow surprise.
Be transformed.

“Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places.”― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Jun 16

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Horizon Stretching

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

Allowing
Unfolding
Inviting
Expanding
Waiting
Wandering
Exploring
Wondering
Observing
Inquiring
Listening
Letting

May these words become daily rituals of restoration and energy
Of expansion, not contraction
Of growth and fruition
Mystery, unknowing, adventure
Break trail
Stretch your horizon

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – John Milton

May 23

Use Your Wings

“There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Put down fear, worry, assumptions, labels, conclusions before ever starting.
Give people, circumstances, yourself a chance, grace and encouragement.
Move, take a step beyond your limiting thoughts, the past, the need to know everything.
Put things in motion.
Take flight.
A single step, then the next.
Jump, float, fly.
Look up, there’s a big sky.
Use your wings.

“When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.” – Daniel Goleman

Jan 29

Radical Silliness

“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.” – Alan Cohen

“You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.” – Alan Cohen

“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid?

It’s going to break your heart.

Don’t let this happen.” – Anne Lamott

Take a break from your rules and requirements.
No permission slips.
Let go of mindsets and stories that say you can’t do it or even try it.
Try and fail and do it again.
Fun is a worthy pursuit that compounds joy.
Explore, iterate, slap paint on the canvas.
Never will we regret having too much fun.
We can’t carry everything.
Hold what is necessary and put the rest down.
Imperfect and beautiful.
Dreaming and loitering in delight required daily curriculum.
Fly a kite. Skip rope. Dance the polka.
Small acts of frivolity and radical silliness to unjam, uproot and loosen.
No do-overs. Start today right where you are.
Big. Juicy. Creative. Life.
Let this happen.

“The familiar and the habitual are so falsely reassuring, and most of us make our homes there permanently. The new is always by definition unfamiliar and untested, so God, life, destiny, suffering have to give us a push—usually a big one—or we will not go. Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in—but only to be moved out from.”— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Dec 16

Ordinary and Available

“The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.” – Jim Peebles

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” – John Burroughs

In the ordinary and available, life lingers waiting to be found and held.
Explore, inquire, imagine.
Expand your view, lay down judgment and opinion to allow fresh thoughts and ideas to enter.
It’s a new day.
Look around, look longer, look with new eyes.
What will you learn today?

“It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.” – John Burdett

Jul 28

Will and Wings

“Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.”― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

When things get heavy, lay them down, even if but for a moment;
Worry left behind dissolves on its own;
Allow light in, a breeze to cool the room;
Gratitude reveals blessings amidst burdens;
No rules or boundaries;
Dream big, deep and wide;
Pursue with rigor;
Let your imagination off leash to run free and with abandon;
Rest on the shore of life and then enter the tide again;
The ebb and flow;
Give into radical joy;
Will and wings;
Defy gravity, take flight.

“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we’ve spun, the tasks we’ve assumed, the problems we have to solve. They’ll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.”― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

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