Release Expectations
Expectations:
magazine perfect family gatherings
gorgeous butter cookies w edible glitter
beautiful IG posts every day
Reality:
constantly cleaning up after aging pets – rug at the curbside this week…
borrowed batteries out of a remote to light up the mantel for this photo
writing deadline displaced cookie baking. Day 3 and I’m already behind on my own personal challenge.
The full moon is my cue to let go of that which does not serve. Once a month seems to be about as long as I can go without a healthy accounting of my angst, agendas and judgment. When the moon shines bright, I let go. I forgive. [Especially my 18 year old self. She did the best she knew how.] I bless and release. I surrender. Today’s gentle reminder has a heaping teaspoon of truth telling. Because tis the season for agendas and unrealistic expectations. Listen, decide what you truly want and let go of the rest. Unrealistic magazine expectations and perfectionism don’t deserve your energy. Give your attention to the important things. [Pro tip: You decide the important things.] For us this year: generosity, family and simple ways.
I’m letting the light of the moon wash me w clarity and grace. I’m opening my hand and releasing image management. My intentions are focused on rich connection and good chocolate. On analog faces and peaceful spaces.
Open your hand. What stays and what goes?
Zero resolutions and cross fit for the soul
“We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.”– Jeffery R. Anderson The Nature of Things – Navigating Everyday Life with Grace
When to share your story. Lessons from an Ent
“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.’ A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. ‘For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”>> Treebeard in JRR Tolkien’s The Two Towers
“You share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.”
“You have to think long and hard about who has earned the right to hear this story. And, with whom am I in a relationship that can bear the weight of this story?”
Coming back around
“And now you’ll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won’t be false, and they won’t be truebut they’ll be real”>> Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings