And while this rings true for me, I must find the balance in showing up AND in caring for myself.
Showing up in community kinda feels like both.

It’s needed

Juxtapositions

Although not necessarily a spring-cleaning kind of day, I have been tidying up inside my home, opening windows, lighting a candle. Hoping to chase away the negative and heavy with a fresh spirit.
Thought it was time to refresh my prayers, too.

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Evening sky from southern Indiana. That’s the mighty Ohio River.

Kung Pao Tofu for a cold winter lunch.

We’re all worked up. Plenty of information that is an absolute nightmarish jawdrop. Not sure what to expect but figure it’ll be bad. My question becomes: what do we DO? We wait for it to affect us personally? See how it goes? What are actions to come for which I can prepare? Forms of resistance?

There are things to be doing, for sure. But not just now.

This a season of strange.
I don’t know what came over me today, but I felt the urge very strongly to put up my tree now. It may mean I simply need some good cheer.Maybe it’s my form of resistance to the crazy that is abounding, my act of anchoring myself in peace, in mystery, in beauty.

I keep receiving invitations and reminders from so many sources that maybe the best resistance I can put up against a crazy world is to live in joy. There sunrise of this day in my life draws a stark line between light and dark. Joy may well be the hand that pushes back against this darkness.

Today is my boy Murphy’s 2nd GOTCHA DAY anniversary. He’s my handsome little deaf dog, a rescue.

I’m about to go all in. Meditation has been a large part of my living, but it’s been the active, observing kind. Being present in all the daily doing. I’m stepping in to Zen Meditation which is a great challenge for me. Sitting in posture and zenning out is a muscle I’ll need to build up.

I’m working towards a ripple effect.

We get a lot of it here in southern Indiana by the Ohio River. It’s other-worldly.