Author: clfuu

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
—George Bernard Shaw

What useful thing have you discovered by daring to make a mistake?

Have you ever gone out into the world wearing shoes that didn’t match? So long as you have one right shoe and one left shoe, it’s an unconventional fashion choice, not a mistake.

What do you like to wear that might seem like a mistake to someone else?

Happy Beltane! The celebration, which falls at the half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, has traditionally been marked with bonfires and flowers, and the dancing of the Maypole. It is a celebration of fertility and passion and the burgeoning growth of the season, a joyful time of welcoming abundance.

What personal passion might you celebrate today?

Some trees head for the heights, growing straight up as fast as they can. Others prefer to branch out lower to the ground, and some only manage to ever grow a few gnarled sticks—but live for thousands of years.

What is your style of growing?

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. ”
―Rachel Naomi Remen

How have you served people with parts of yourself you used to be ashamed of?