Where to Start

My morning run is often the only time I have to myself, to let my thoughts flow. I had just been thinking about how, despite all of the most recent changes in the world, we have the ability to continue being our unique selves when I noticed the pavement looking back up at me.

I stopped to take a picture. It's not often I jog by what looks like a giant pastel eyeball.

Returning to my thoughts, it occurred to me that while we may need to get creative about how we are able to express our individual talents and abilities, it's been positively heartwarming to see people doing what they do and being who they are. Whether it's being helpful by delivering food to those in need, making people laugh, mobilizing teams to raise money, organizing community services, doing yoga, dancing, teaching, cooking, nursing, writing, etc., people all over the world are finding ways to help each other (and the world itself) with a sense of purpose as never before.

We all go at our own pace. We might each, in our own time, stop and evaluate our path deciding how best to proceed. As we are forced to adapt we might temporarily be in what I call a blind spot - that place we find ourselves when we can't yet see our own future. Faith is necessary. Hope is necessary. Even when these are in short supply, we can keep going. Even when we can not see what is ahead, we can continue our journey with deliberate intention. We might take a new direction. When we don't know where to start, we can just start somewhere - anywhere.

As I put my phone away to continue my run, there was another sign...

I love when the pavement speaks! Who knows where our journey will lead? I ran along the chalk outline until the numbers faded away and finally disappeared completely, but by then I was running again so I just kept going.

Have a beautiful week.

Love,
T

Good Day Sunshine

It's going to be a beautiful week!

I can dig it.

Hope you all had a great holiday! Here's to springtime and fresh new beginnings! xo

Love,
T

Spring Me!

It's here!!!!  It's here!!!!  Whaaaaaahoooooo!!!!

Let's go!  Let's go!  Time to... GO!

This ad was posted at the supermarket checkout...

I am PSYCHED!!!!!!!!



The signs are unmistakable...

The little budding plants peeking up through the ground...

Potting soil for sale at the local supermarket...

And if you need more proof...

On Thursday, March 20, 2014 it officially became Spring according to my calendar... 

Alright then.  It's time to get down to some serious business.  We have got to prepare.  It's time to make way for new life and clear out the old.  

This week has been all about that for me.  I've been cleaning up unfinished business,  a spring cleaning of sorts.  All that old mail and paperwork isn't going to take care of itself, I guess.  Those taxes and receipts have GOT to get out of my way!  :)  ALRIGHT FINE!  I am ON IT!

Then in church today there was much talk of spring and newness, of learning how to "release that which no longer serves us" (I also attended a Kundalini workshop after service).

"Kundalini is described as a sleeping, dormant potential force in the human organism.  It is one of the components of an esoteric description of the "subtle body," which consists of nadir (energy channels), chakras (psychic centers), and bindu (drops of essence)."

Kundalini on Wikipedia

Sooooooo... as the sleeping, dormant flowers, grass and trees begin to awaken... so too can our potential energy?  And sooooooo... as the earth around us here (in Northeastern United States anyway) enters its new season of springtime... so too can we enter a new season of our own selves with a chance for new beginnings?

OK!  I'm down with that!  Let's go!

This week, as I continue to clear out old papers, mail, and tax receipts, I'll make a conscious effort to also clear out other things that might be in my way.  Maybe I'll discover some old notion or idea that is holding me back and I will let go of it.  Maybe (and I love this one) my perception of the Truth can be challenged in some way and I can learn, grow and emerge anew from taking a fresh look at something.  

I'm ready.  Spring me!

Namaste,

T

P.S.

Thank you to Michelle Pelletier for reinforcing the idea of challenging my truth and for a lovely introduction to Kundalini.

Michelle Pelletier's "Center for Psychic Healing" website