Recently, I began to think of the starter truly as a person.  How much care and energy I place in making sure all conditions are just right for growth.  How I must change my actions to create the best outcomes.  

Why do we not honor those changes within?

I am so grateful for nature’s intent.  She forced us home, with no obligations.  She forced us together, to lay only the best of plans. 

I am truly grateful for the incredible life I am able to live, and hope that you are too.  I hope you take this moment to find your own practice, even if just for today. 

This week, my 6 year old son asked me, “Am I safe?”

…  I opened the book and the first lines indicate that I am opening this book at this time for a very particular reason.  It is not an accident.  It is an invitation from the universe.  

“I am listening.”

By honoring the harvest, we honor the bounty of every season.  The bounty of crops, the bounty of space, the bounty of life’s return, and the bounty of growth. 

This morning, my little boy asked me to go for an adventure before the sun was up.  What would I have done instead?  Drank my coffee, made breakfast, dishes, swept the floor, maybe scrolled my phone.  What did I do instead?  I experienced awe.

Out came the paint, newspaper and pallet.  I decided I wanted to use one brush and never stop moving.  I wanted a flow of connection just as the waves ebb. 

I wanted to be of the water.

I have spent more time THINKING about fixing that pillow than the time it took to actually FIX said pillow.  The mental space and energy of thinking about these tasks is so heavy.  Why do I care so much?  I spend so much of my valuable life force creating work.  Is it worth it?

When I started writing this I was thinking; ‘Next summer, I’ll do better!’.  Then I paused long enough to realize, NO!  There are still three weeks left of THIS summer.  I have ⅓ of our summer to do better.