With so many things happening all at once…
Because there’s always something to do or some things to multi-task or something to think about doing or plan for doing or reflect on doing…
I never quite feel able to just be present in the moment anymore.
So then, I wonder, how might one simply do nothing?
Maybe in a meditation retreat?
A silent meditation retreat?
Or maybe by allowing myself to retreat into meditation right where I stand instead of going elsewhere to do so?
Aha!
And then, even then, allowing the mind to spin as it will while releasing all the clutter and allowing the cracks to show where the beauty comes in…
Where the creativity is allowed to flow through.
How cool would that be?
Because in the releasing of responsibility and “shoulds”, “coulds”, and “woulds” lies all that might be, if I can just allow the time and space for it to make it’s way through the fog and into actual being.
Through the fog.
Because it allows you to only see so far, that enveloping fog, which is also so very comforting in some ways…
In its wrap-around nature…
With its sheltering ways…
And its ability to soften the hard edges and show just a glimpse of what lies beyond…
As well as the gift of allowing your imagination to run free…
Allowing myself to walk gently, to breathe deeply, to just be…
In the moment.
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The words above were written this morning, mixed between random thoughts about a hundred different things. And yet…and yet, when pulled out of the paragraph form in which they were spewed, they became poetry to my eyes and speak of my heart and what I’ve been feeling without being able to…until now. And the words go along nicely with some of the photos I’ve taken recently of the gorgeous fogs that have blanketed the land since our big rainstorm last week!
And so, with this, I believe I have found one of my 365 challenges for the coming year! I found 750 Words through another blog recently and signed up not thinking the challenge would start immediately…but it does…so I panicked for a minute and then I dove in! See what curiosity does?! 😉 The idea is to allow a stream of consciousness to flow (ideally first thing in the morning), releasing all of the junk that clutters the mind and allowing for whatever needs to flow to do so. And so I started this (on accident), and I’m excited to give this a try each morning (or each day, as it unfolds), and am hopeful I can release my ideas around how or what I should write and simply write for the joy of it! Because, truly, if it’s not fun, why would I do it?
While I’m not sure how much of my morning writings will actually make their way here, if I feel something is shareable, I’ll happily share it.
Onward!
Thanks for being on this journey with me, you guys. I appreciate you.
xoxo,
M
