Astonishing Simplicity

a quick Monday mash-up

There is so much change in the air you can feel it threading through your synapses, can’t you? I can.

I met up with an old friend (Hi, Amy) serendipitously this weekend and I had the absolute joy of her looking at me and saying, “I get it.”

There is something about being gotten, without fanfare without solution, without sympathy, but just bone deep understanding that really settled me into the suspicion that life is much easier than we make it.

Listen, life is hard. I get it. I am currently in an interaction of not fighting the hard, putting it all on the table, and sorting through : What do I want? What do I need to do to have peace in my soul when I leave this life?

Was that a big jump for you? It’s where my mind goes; always has jumped to the bigger picture. Interestingly the bigger picture right now for me is Peace. I want peace. I have another friend (Hi, Margo) who has peace signs all over her beautiful, tropical home. The older I get the more I interpret that as a necessary declaration. I want peace; I value peace; and I will not entertain that which disturbs peace.

Boundaries are also up for me right now because if I AM Willing to sort through it all and figure out what needs to stay and what needs to go, I need to be clear on boundaries. If there is no room for it, hold the line. No matter if it makes me a “not nice” person, or lets someone down. I didn't consciously know I held that, but turns out when you are willing to sift though the pocket of your personality you can find a lot of lint.

I listened to this brilliant podcast, which I so highly recommend it in all its complexity and its brilliance it comes to the same idea of: It’s much more simple than we think. Or rather, it is exactly as simple as we think.

When Robert Edward decodes the torus of being a human in polarity, I laughed. I laughed at the simplicity of it. You’ll get what I mean, should you listen. I’m not here for answers, I am here to follow the golden threads.

So, that is why I have decided to harness the power of the language I AM Willing and then you can fill in the blank there. I chose astonished, with the etymology being based on the Latin meaning— Out of Thunder.

This post is really a mash-up of thoughts that are arising as I make space for some changes. We are coming on the last live cohort class of Sit In Your Center, and I will let you in on a bit of a secret. Lean in. I retook the class myself and I was a bit—astonished. The girl teaching it, a me of three years earlier was very clear in her languaging and in her simplicity. It was like I had stumbled on an old, insightful journal entry where the pristine nature of things pulsed through in simple wisdom. I was impressed by her and brought her back home to lead.

As I age, I had momentarily fallen into the trap of linearity and doing a comparative analysis of what I had done versus what I was doing. I stopped that when I realized it is a both and, not an either or. It is a mosaic of, not a sharing. There is a perpetual pulse of wisdom in this now moment. It is expected that we tip off our stance everyone once and awhile when we are learning something new or bumping into a pattern we have finally grown stable enough to release. But instead of looking out, look in, as Robert Edward so aptly quips: U-In-Verse. Tend within to change without.

In order to scoop up where I was and where I am going, I am making space for simplicity and sanctity, letting life astonish me and pulling away the frozen fascia of thought that says it cannot be because it was not for another. We don’t have time for that. We’r here to change the game.

You in?
Happy Monday.

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