I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
Andrew Wyeth
Today is the December solstice: astronomically marking winter and the beginning of lengthening daylight in the Northern Hemisphere (currently tilted away from the sun).
- Summer, and the beginning of shortened times of daylight, in the Southern Hemisphere (currently tilted toward the sun).
Dates and calendar years are not as relevant or memorable as personal anniversaries, seasons and celestial cycles —or for our perspective and discovery, expression and growth.
For this seasonal change, let’s be attentive to what we want (and need), and what has waited long enough.
There are defining (and guiding) limits on our time and energies and resources. We can do (most) anything — but we will never have the capacity to do everything.
- However, please remember: each day offers us 24 hours that can serve as our Day One. And each hour offers us 60 opportunities to begin again, to decide and to act; to pause and reflect; to conclude, release and change course.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
Braveheart, as we live the various seasons of our different roles and life experiences, it is vital to notice the clues of our wishes and our jealousy (envy) — indications of how we desire to live differently.
Slow is fast enough.
When we want* something — we must then redirect our attention, time and energy to the teeny-tiny, micro-movements of action to live differently in order to experience it.
- To live differently we must identify and evaluate the patterns of living that formed our existing habits and beliefs — and then begin to faithfully alter and rewrite as necessary.
- The patterns, emotions and thoughts rooted in our past roles and experiences generously offer us lessons and foundations to add on to, reframe or (sometimes) tear down and build anew.
New seasons in nature are opportunities for us to transition into the new seasons (life choices and stages) awaiting us.
The psyches and souls of women have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place…
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Braveheart, let’s self-compassionately give attention to what we want and abide in our soul-place. And let’s allow time and space for wonder and curiosity, wandering and rest.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit | field notes | Right Brain Planner® FAQ
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit [Theme] Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨ [Focus] — Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ongoing, ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning)
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- * Identifying needs can help us to know our wants. Feelings and Needs inventories are included on pages 47-49 of the Prompts, Art and Templates section in the 2024 Right Brain Planner® Annual Kit.