Category: Meditations

Go ahead. Throw the ball. Throw it. I’ll drop this after I get to the new ball. Or not. Always room for another ball.

What are you ready to pursue?

In the winter, when the trees are missing the luxuriance of leaves, you can see down to their structure, to the beauty of the form that lies underneath.

How have you found beauty through losing or stripping down something in your life?

“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
―Anaïs Nin

What personal transformation do you take pleasure in?

Planting bulbs is an act of faith, believing in the unlikely proposition that sticking brown blobs in the ground during the fall will result in bright flowers come spring. Of course it doesn’t always work. Sometimes animals eat the bulbs, or they just never bloom. But just as often the bulbs multiply unseen under the ground, bringing you a profusion of flowers you never thought you planted.

When has your faith in someone or something brought more than you had imagined?

Like Robert Frosts’s diverging roads, there come points in life when the tracks one has been steadily chugging along suddenly offer complicated options, and you simply have to choose. The trick is to maintain faith that you are on the right track.

Do you see tracks converging in your life and offering you a new direction?