“I do not understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” -Anne Lamott
✅ This week started with feeling 🔀 off-track (distracted and procrastinating) … So, I pulled an oracle card and proceeded with my morning rituals (instead of giving in to the 🌀 swirly-ness).
The oracle inspiration & details as I focused on allowing the November guide words to be my focus. Basically, pausing + checking in with myself to get clear about what I needed (instead of “rejecting” myself: dismissing what I needed ➡️ and trying harder to push through …)
❤️ Braveheart, intention (our habits + choices) forms the literal pathway that ensures we do not waste our lives ➡️ (or become bogged down with distractions, discouragement and other forms of procrastination).
- I shared a narrative of details regarding my Week 46/52 entries (along guiding notes) with my Ko-fi patrons.
- Related: daily sequences and routines | assessment & connection | releasing into dormancy
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” -Emile Zola
“We deserve to be the caretakers for our spirits and dreams, and this means truly sensing and listening for our most alive route.” 🌈SARK
Matching our values with our actions ensures we are devoted caretakers for our spirits and dreams, Braveheart. ❤️ Tending to what we need, as we need it, for our well-being.
For me, right now, this means I have been focused on trying softer, resting and reading, being outdoors and being on the pages of my journals to create visual chronicles.
“Learning to try softer is not a one time event but a way we learn to be with ourselves.” -Aundi Kolber
“Trying softer is sacred work. And while it won’t be perfect or easy, it will be worth it. Because this is what we were made for: a living, breathing, moving, feeling, connected, beautifully incarnational life.” -Aundi Kolber
The sacred work of trying softer is a practice (something we try over and over) and often begins with asking ourselves:
What am I paying attention to?
When we have a thought or a feeling, we have the choice to decide how we attach action and energy to the though or feeling.
➡️ Our choices determine our well-being (as in, whether or not we will trip the proverbial 🌈light fantastic on our 😌 peace, or our 😨 anxiety.
Braveheart, November is a liminal time between Samhain and Yule.
Let’s hold this time as sacred rest; let’s abide in the 🌙 moonlight and the ☀️ sunlight, breathing in fresh air, and breathing out the remnants of our expectations wrapped in faulty beliefs about ourselves and our living.
🙃 Full disclosure, I have also lingered too long reading new reports regarding 🐘🫏 Congressional cuts to the Veteran’s Administration in the United States, and the blatant disrespect and buffoonery … BUT, that is all the more reason I am sharing this post with you. 😊
Real life happens, we get distracted and we become discombobulated by Life, politics and current events.
☑️ To help redirect my thoughts and mood yesterday, I opted to:
- view 🔗 🛫 take-offs and 🛬 landings
- enjoy some levity in the 📲 posts by Ali Wentworth
- celebrate 🔗 Jon Batiste’s 🎂 birthday!
- … and the story of Jonathan Pride ♻️
- watch horse 🐴 videos … so many horse videos! 😊
- reminding myself: “there is always a path back to yourself”
- and of course, reels like 🔗 this 👑 one.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
⭐️ I am an artist and curator; I am one who communicates with color, found words and collage, inky marks and doodles as I cycle like the moon (as my calendar), chronicling oracles and abiding with the sky as a meditation.
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