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Jun 16

Warrior Soul, Soft Heart

“In my family monarch butterflies are daughters of fire. They come from the sun carrying the souls of warriors who fought and died in battle, and return to feed on the nectar of flowers.”― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“The most beautiful of butterflies is nothing but a well-dressed caterpillar.”― Corina Abdulahm Negura

Signs and symbols.
Time and timing.
Cycles and seasons.
Beginnings and endings.
The path between and through.
Transition to transformation.
Remain present in each and all.
Trusting the process of unfolding, becoming, flight.
There’s beauty right here, right now.
Sweet nectar.

“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha

Jul 16

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From Stasis to Transformation

“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.” – Mister Rogers

“Every day in every way we are gently, and sometimes not so gently, being guided in the direction of our inherent truth. Every experience is walking us home to ourselves.”― Shayne Traviss, Your Vivid Life

When I want to …

Put up walls and call them boundaries, knock them down;
Stay hunkered down in the nest, push me out and remind me I have wings;
Bounce from one thing to the next scattered from demands of others, tune out the noise and make music;
Return to old narratives, assumptions and judgments because they prove me right, prove me wrong, show me love and kindness;
Get comfortable in the containment of the chrysalis, wiggle enough to break the pod into a beautiful butterfly;
From stasis to transformation;
Our call and calling;
Change, connect, grow;
The path of walking home to ourselves and the world.

“Stop, be still for a moment, drop your shoulders, close your eyes and take a long deep breath.”― Shayne Traviss, Your Vivid Life

Apr 10

Wing Building

“If you are falling….dive.”― Joseph Campbell

“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”― Anais Nin

To be never done.
Yet content.
Unfolding.
Unfurling.
Waiting.
Slow then sudden.
Tipping points.
Becoming.
Thresholds and transitions.
Masterpieces in the making, never finished.
Trust the still small voice.
Doing the next right thing.
The stuff of transformation.
Of wing building.

“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”― Dean Jackson

Jul 20

Aptitude to Fly

“A power of Butterfly must be –
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky”― Emily Dickinson

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”― Leonardo da Vinci

Butterflies have been crossing my path all week.
Dancing with delight.
Landing for a second on still blooming flowers.
Classroom in nature.
Ever present.
Free from spiraling thoughts, fabrication, worry.
Light and easy.
Resetting. Recalibrating. Renewing.
Giving up the unnecessary to defy gravity and take flight.

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon