Your creative soulful life requires your presence. Are you willing to show up?
You must follow the creative urges and rest when it is time to rest.
Set up structures for your thriving. Go with the flow, and remember where you began – is there something asking for your return and completion?
Be wildly present within the magic of the daily mundane, the little rituals of living. Let yourself become immersed in the simplicity of your human experience. Where can you allow for more simplicity, more presence?
I write to you from my cozy nest: my creative flow zone where the breeze blows in and I can watch just the right amount of the world moving by. Cars down the way, planes in the distance, dogs and their humans alley walking, neighbors checking in on the remodel next door…a quiet neighborhood, thriving in its own special way. Right now, it is quiet. Dark. The stars are glittering, reminding me of the beauty in every fleeting moment. The dark after the day, when the world becomes fresh again; there’s a spaciousness here that I adore. I enter a deeper realm of creative experience, connected intimately with my soul. This environment, this way: I choose it again and again.
Do you love a scene set? I do. Sitting here, chaga in hand…
I’m just back from returning to the place where this idea tapped my temple: standing in front of the stove, watching chaga simmer on the back-left burner.
And in the process I put today’s blanched procurement of Amish-grown cauliflower in the freezer, tidied the kitchen (he rises before me and LOVES waking to a clean space), took the cauliflower-blanching water down to the garden, giving the compost-special avocado trees a drink. Noticed the garage door open (how usual!) and closed it after coming in from a brief yet poignant moment of stargazing.
In this I realize, truthfully – the instructions are written – follow the blueprint of your soul, letting her guide you back to the center of the star that is you. The others in the sky, they are there to remind you of who you are, who you have been, who you are becoming (yet truthfully already are). This journey here, it is simply one of remembering, claiming SELF.
Over the course of years I have curated my life: to nurture my innate self, my soul-desires, my natural rhythmic way of being in harmony with inner world, outer expression, and the structures that support this thriving.
This reality is a dream and we are here to thrive. Let’s engage with presence.
Written September 2024
