five things friday: light flares, sleeping in, sweet potatos
Published: Fri, 03/03/23
March 3, 2023
Hello there,
I don't think I have been this time disoriented since the early
days of the pandemic. More than thinking it is Friday on a Wednesday, it feels like a deep call into the liminal realm of timelessness. Luckily I can let myself float here a bit, see what drifts by. I just need to remember to check my schedule so I don't forget important things!
This week's things are kind of about this, letting go and finding renewal. Please enjoy.
1. Light flares like are magical to me. This heart shaped one is a
loving invitation to be carried away in a liminal moment.
2.
I let myself sleep in all week. I haven't missed so many mornings in a row of my beloved Writer's Hour since I began a year and a half ago. Day after day my alarm went off, I would shut it off and wake up again between 9 and 10 am. I worried I was letting myself down, that I was abandoning my writing, that I was being lazy and undisciplined.
Seems I was just really tired and needed a break. Thursday morning when my alarm went off I turned it off and expected to fall back into a deep sleep as I have for days but I did not. I got up, found my way to my desk and wrote. It felt good and nourishing rather than forced habit.
3. I am not always generous in giving myself the grace of return. By this I mean returning myself to practice with welcome and appreciation instead of criticism. Our personal practices, creative
and otherwise, are not meant to drive us into perfectionistic consistency but support us and our growth.
Sometimes that means taking a break just so we can receive the grace of the return. Not that consistency is
unimportant, but perhaps consistency is less about robotic frequency and more about devotion to returning over and over again.
As I make more space and put in structures to support my creative practice and art
this seems an important distinction to explore.
I love a sweet treat with an unexpected ingredient. The best chocolate cake I ever had was a beet cake. I detest beets but with chocolate, delicious. My most often requested bake are these
chocolate chip cookies from Joy the Baker whose secret ingredient always surprises/shocks folks. Sure the wonderfulness of chocolate is at play with all of these but the unexpected is where the magic is. It was the sweet potato that enticed me to make these truffles and they have become a lovely afternoon treat, along with the chai I talked about last week. I'm into creating a little sweetness in my afternoons recently.
How are you finding sweetness these days?
5.
A blessing for your week:
(Mythic Oracle by Carisa mellado, art by Michele-Lee Phelan)
May you return to the healing and grace in the beauty surrounding you, including yourself.
