Seaweed from Florence beach, spread out on the grass by the currants my mom gave me, to rinse off the salt in the rain.
It’s going to be a busy season coming up, these next few months. Exciting and enriching, but busy. Make sure you ground every day - bare feet on the grass. Going outside. Standing by a tree, touching the trees. Even if you are in Cheticamp, or wherever you happen to be. Step away from your Asana, your inbox, your to-do lists, even though you are so in love with your career and power right now, and go outside. It will ground you. It will inspire you. It will rinse you.
The house, while being renovated or in need of renovation, is still a house. You still live here. (This site). Live in it. Notice what needs renovation. Do not be afraid to invite people over. It is like your home - the people who come into your home and don’t “get it”, well, they don’t get you. And that’s OK.
For better or for worse, since 2002, writing actually IN my blog’s “New Post” tool has felt the most inspiring, the most rich. (As opposed to a Word doc, or a Google doc.)
Sometimes a thing or an idea takes a long time in coming to fruition. And that’s OK. Frustrating, but we cannot all be Essentialists. And even Essentialists have back burners on their stoves. (I’m speaking specifically about the branding photoshoot you are slowly, slowwwwwwly conceptualizing and planning… and which is happening concurrently with your own changes in who you are, what you want to show the world, etc. It’s actually a beautiful, magical process… but it is SLOW.)
These various commitments you have made and are making, to community through volunteering, to your son to take care of him and be present with him, to yourself to do more writing, to friends, to lovers, to your job to give good energy… all of it is good, and in right timing. You’re not out of balance. See again the above note about grounding.