Goodbye September

This would not be a good time for you to read the book called The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Self-Esteem. In fact, it will never be the right time to read it. While it's true that at this juncture in your life story you can make exceptional progress in boosting your confidence and feeling positive about yourself, you're not an idiot and you don't need idiot-level assistance. If there was a book called The Impish Guide to Accessing and Expressing Your Idiosyncratic Genius, I'd definitely recommend it. Likewise a book titled The Wild-Eyed Guide to Activating Your Half-Dormant Potential or The Brilliant Life-Lover's Guide to Becoming a Brilliant Life-Lover. ~ K. Totally Loved This & Am Owning It

I've had a wonderful birthday month. Time with family. Time with friends. Time alone. Fabulous music. Insightful traveling. Engaging reading. Not to mention, I'm getting better and better at passing life's quizzes. Obstacles maneuvered with grace. Problems solved with ease. Of course, substituting dancing for worrying probably helped. Even so, seeing that we create it all for ourselves, I'm always amused when I don't have an answer. Then I remember that Love is always "D" or "All of the above." To aid you, just remember, D is for Dance.

Anyway,

I'm taking on my last blog by committing the coming month to poetry. Certain to be challenging, I think it will serve me. I'm not giving myself any rules. I'll let what comes up, come up and bravely post. We'll see how "less and less" becomes "more and more"...who knows, perhaps I'll throw in some impishness with a little idiosyncrasy here and there.

More Of Me In Motion

"Our job is to become more and more of what we are," says poet Marvin Bell. "The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more." Whether or not you're a poet, Virgo, I would like to apply this gauge to your own growth. The way I see it, your power to claim your birthright and fulfill your destiny will ultimately hinge to a significant degree on your ability to shed all residual shame about your true nature. And guess what: There has never been a better time to work on that noble project than right now. ~ Boss Man

Werd.

Dear Universe, “Find me where you know I need to be.” ~ Gary Zukav




I loved Zukav's quote the second I read it. Yes. What a perfect prayer. What a perfect desire. And so, with a open heart, I am choosing to embrace it fully. I've been doing a 21 Day Vegan Challenge* and, also with an open heart, chose to totally violate it today. By doing so, I found myself at my local coffee shop. The compulsion was literally steering the wheel. When I get there, I see a friend that I've not seen in awhile. A long while. So long, in fact, I did not realize she had been divorced...for over a year. She asks me how I'm doing. As I tell her of my well-being, I can see that she isn't doing well at all. Sometimes another's pain can be so visceral it becomes your own. But I've learned that taking that on doesn't serve anyone. It's true that you cannot get sad enough to make someone happy only in a positive state of knowing All-Is-Well can you create wellness. Since we create our realities, I fully understand that this is not altruistic. It has something to do with me and it has something to do with hope...that very fluid energy that slips easily in and out of our world. Just the act of making a time to talk can be a hopeful act towards healing. What's on the other end of that anticipated time together is infinite in possibility. One being, finding her lost Self. But I know she'll find herself again because, like my mom used to always say when we went to the fair or a carnival, If you get lost just stay still, don't move and I'll find you.
My friend just has to get still.
*Dear Eggs & Salmon, I miss you. ~ Andi