After yesterday’s post about my body, this quote from Sebene Selassie arrived in my email box today:
You belong. Everywhere. Yes, you—with all your history, anxiety, pain. Yes, everywhere—in every culture, community, circumstance. You belong in this body. You belong in this very moment. You belong in this breath…and this one. You have always belonged.
I like it.
One of my favorite things about this time off is the fact that most mornings I can wake up early and take my time before I go out into the world. I almost always start with making a cup of coffee and usually while that’s brewing I’ll do the Wordle, read my gratitude quote of the day, then I journal in the quiet often it’s just the start of dawn. Sometimes I have meditative time after that, get in a little French practice and then go out for a walk. If I can do all of those things before I have to think about doing anything for anyone else it’s a fantastic start.
The skies are all hazy, you can’t see any of the hills or mountains nearby, apparently the smoke is from the fires up in Canada. It doesn’t smell very smoky today, yesterday you could definitely smell some smoke, but it’s just a hazy everywhere. My work for the day was to make pumpkin muffins, then weed the labyrinth. It was such a satisfying job to make it look clean and orderly. I listened to some wonderful podcasts as I worked. One in particular, The Good Life podcast, they talked about getting unstuck, had some great suggestions that I’m going to try out.
I went to put a note in my notes app reminding myself about things to do today and when I spoke the word ‘today’ as the title of the note, it came up as ‘Trust Today’ then I added a note about ‘find sacred space’, and it came up as ‘find sacred spaceship’! So maybe the universe is telling me I need to trust whatever happens today and I’ll find some kind of sacred spaceship?!
By the end of the day, I had not seen any kind of spaceships, but I did see a bunny rabbit in the backyard, a beautiful, but smoky, sunset and an ad in the local paper that was very different from anything I’ve seen at home!
