Hanging Electric In The Air

Hanging Electric In The Air

What if you were in conversation with yourself over time, a younger version of you speaking to an older version and vice versa? Pick a date in the future and write a letter to yourself and then calendar it to be read that day. What would you want to tell yourself? I have been writing letters to my future self for several years and this post is another in the series. Who knows what the world shall bring or what mix of choice and chance will shape the path between you and your future self. For me, I put my faith in the collective intelligence of a lifetime, in the wisdom within me to guide my choices; and in the hand of providence for the chance to live this miraculous life.  

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A Toast To The Equinox

A Toast To The Equinox

The equinox is a time to recognize that we live in both the light and the dark and to remember to do our best to find the balance in ourselves and in our ives. One way to do so is to ponder soulful questions: What gives you fullness? Who tapers the hard edges of life? How do you shape your suffering into scrolls of wisdom? or What sweetens your pot of joys and adds spice to your life?

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To The Author Of My Life

To The Author Of My Life

I wrote this letter to myself as part of my ritual of gratitude for my journals. It describes how I might relate to them as I go through the Konmari Method of tidying up. the life changing process of keeping what sparks joy and arranging my life around what I love. Do you keep a journal? If so, what do you do with it once it is complete? How do you preserve what is precious in your heart?

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Let Me Familiarize Myself With You

Let Me Familiarize Myself With You

“Let me familiarize myself with you. I’m not just talking about assorted facts anyone can get to compose an obituary. I want you to know the history of my heart, the tiny tragedies and comical acts of my everyday life.” I wrote these beginning lines of this blog after looking up the etymology of the word “familiar,” which comes from the same root word as family. We typically use the word familiar to mean a casual knowing, but when turned into a verb, familiarize, it becomes the act of getting to know someone, especially through repeated interaction over time. This means that you learn the good and the bad in a person and expose the same in yourself. We create the family feeling through regular interaction in which we familiarize ourselves with each other and we come to know, appreciate, and ideally love the quirks and idiosyncrasies, the beauty and dignity, and even the faults and flaws that make us uniquely ourselves.

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