This week is an invitation to soften judgment, ask better questions, and remember that kindness doesn’t require agreement, only awareness.
Sometimes the compromise is me stepping away and taking myself out of a situation that I find unacceptable.

May you be met with grace, and may you offer it, where you can, in whatever shape that makes.

Fear is not a failure. It is information.
I get a clear sense of what is important to me.

If I can pause, if I can slow down.
If I can ask that fear to “sit down for a cup of tea,”
Maybe I can listen in to what it is really asking of me.
Maybe I learn something.

Maybe I can honestly meet myself in this very moment,
exactly as I am.

Whether I am opening a curtain to let the morning light in,
washing the dishes in the kitchen sink, preparing my taxes in spreadsheets and sweatpants.
I don’t need to wait for the perfect moment, the wide berth of space, the boundless energy I think I need in order to have a creative moment.

Creativity doesn’t need me to have a week off of work for it to arrive.
I don’t need the fancy notebook to begin.
It moves through me, through us in the ordinary rhythms of life.
It is accessible with out any fancy bells or whistles.
The mundane, the monotony also desires to have the company of inspiration.

Without the space between, without the pause or the longing, without the emptiness, the impact of when connection happens or abundance abounds, the sweetness of reconnection or receiving can get lost in the hustle and bustle of all the things flowing everything everywhere all at once. Just as we explored in duration + tempo, if music had no rests…. If the notes were constant and no variation? Is that even music, or is it just noise?

To experience something new I must surrender the expectation
that I know what should be.

I can’t always do this easily.
I too often compare my experience with those around me, using an inappropriate measuring stick for if I am “okay”, if I am “doing it right”.
I am steeped in my own identity, my own habits to the point where I may not even know HOW to try a new way of being.