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Fluidity and Flow

“We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”― Mark Doty

The world opens or closes to the aperture of your heart.
Soften, let light in.
Receptivity and allowing.
Water through, around and over rocks.
Weaving, wandering, with ease.
Mystery, unknowing, curiosity.
Paths to discovery, wonder, transformation.
Ebb and flow.
Reinvention and regeneration.
Fluidity and flow.

“It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.”― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight

To Stay Alive

“Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.”― A.D. Posey

“Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.”― A.D. Posey

“…You should stay alive
As often as possible and keep yourself open
to anything out of place and everything
with nowhere else to go, to carry what’s left
of your voice out and beyond, into, over,
and under, past, within, outside, between,
among, across, along, and up and around
and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…”
― David Wagoner, After the Point of No Return

Widen your view
Crack the window
Open the door
Cross the threshold
Big, beautiful world
Open for business
Of awe, wonder, delight
Stay alive
Curiosity, Inquiry, Discovery

“The world is always open,
Waiting to be discovered.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

Walking and Waking

“Memory is not a place to retreat to or hide in, but the lighting of some very tender kindling in the back of our heart to warm us going forward.” – Mark Nepo, The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life

The path unfolds walking it out
Delays, detours, curves, part of the journey too
Walking and waking
Attune and aware
Trusting the unfolding
Curiosity and wonder
Walking today’s road, gratitude the map
Waking to the beauty, senses ready
One step at a time, grounded and lightly.

“At this point in my life, I was coming to understand the more enduring nature of acceptance. It is not resignation or compliance. It is not giving up. More deeply, it is how our soul cooperates with the truth of things as they are, the way a fish swims with the current of the river that is its home. In this, acceptance is not static but quite active, requiring our dexterity. When fully engaged, the practice of acceptance gives us the strength and agility to live as fully as possible, regardless of our circumstances.” – Mark Nepo, The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life

Wisdom in Motion

“Knowledge strengthened by uncertainty is the heart of superior performance under fire and the key to creating a new standard of expertise – questioning – open, adaptive for volatile time. Uncertainty is wisdom in motion.” – Maggie Jackson

Curiosity.
Inquiry.
Exploration.
Questions.
Seeking.
Tending.
Patterns.
Connections.
Discovery.
Emergence.
May you not know enough to keep asking, learning, growing.
Adaptive and enthusiastic in unknowing and unfolding.
Wisdom in motion.

“When the stakes are high, those who do not know gain the cognitive advantage.” – Maggie Jackson

Explore

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”  – Mark Twain

While doing my morning routine, I glanced out the window to discover Lily was scaling the limb of the tree that fell last week. “Explore” immediately came to mind. Explore your world everyday.

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness." - Bryant H. McGill

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness." - Bryant H. McGill