Today, like any other day, We wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundres of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. –Rumi
Tagged: Artwork, Inspiration, New Work
Just a few images from our weekend, as we head back into the week. Rain in the forecast + there are many big projects to really dive into for me. I’d love to hear what you are up to. Where are you putting your attention this week?
The trout lilies with their yellow faces are blooming in the woods. I love the name of these first spring woodland blooms: ephemerals. They are here for an instant, then gone as secretly as they arrived once the canopy fills in over head and the leaves begin to rustle thickly. The world is tilting towards the sun. Things are greening. The sun is staying longer in the sky. And everything is happening at once, it seems; in my life, and in the newly springtime world. I’ve been a bit quiet here even though I’m bursting with some rather big projects. Sometimes things just need to grow in quiet first; like yeast dough rising, the alchemy of effort and attention towards these things is becoming…
We’re running. He’s ahead of my by a half a stride, and I can feel the way this makes me run harder, then harder still, trying to catch up, to syncopate, to be in step. Finally I ask him, “Where do you see me now? Next to you or behind?” “Next to me,” he says, zero hesitation. I sprint a step ahead so we’re in line, his feet moving in time with mine now, our knees and feet matching in gate. “How about now?” I ask. “Ahead.” I put my arm out like the wing of an airplane, perpendicular to my side, it brushes lightly against his chest. We’re exactly in line. “I’m beside you now,” I say, “But I wasn’t before.” “No way!”…
Tagged: Love, True Velocity, life in balance
1. Claim an hour for white space. For doing nothing. For thinking. For Writing or doodling or daydreaming. 2. When you first roll over and wake up, write down the first five things that come to mind. No judgement, no editing. 3. Pick something to look for: a word, a color, an object. Record every instance, and notice how many ways simply paying attention attracts what you are looking for. 4. Have a second cup of coffee + linger, reading. (Feedly is my new favorite app for subscribing to RSS feeds. REWORK is the book I’m in the middle of that I most want to finish.) 5. Take a self portrait, shamelessly, gleefully, shyly. It doesn’t matters. What matters is looking yourself in the…