Wishing everyone who happens by
a very Healthy, Happy and Artful New Year!
Just putting these out to the ether for this New Year:
Word for the year: OPEN
Core Desired Feelings (CDFs): unencumbered, aligned, vibrant, connected, mindful.
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I want to repost a poem that Michelle read in our New Year's yoga workshop last year that still speaks to me:
For a New Beginning
by John O’Donohue
In out of the way
places of the heart
Where your thoughts
never think to wander
This beginning has
been quietly forming
Waiting until you were
ready to emerge.
For a long time it has
watched your desire
Feeling the emptiness
grow inside you
Noticing how you
willed yourself on
Still unable to leave
what you had outgrown.
It watched you play
with the seduction of safety
And the grey promises
that sameness whispered
Heard the waves of
turmoil rise and relent
Wondered would you
always live like this.
Then the delight, when
your courage kindled,
And out you stepped
onto new ground,
Your eyes young again
with energy and dream
A path of plenitude
opening before you.
Though your
destination is not clear
You can trust the
promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into
the grace of beginning
That is one with your
life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to
adventure
Hold nothing back,
learn to find ease in risk
Soon you will be home
in a new rhythm
For your soul senses
the world that awaits you.
