[I want to beg you] to be patient toward all that is unresolved in our heart…to live the questions now.
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Inviting Calm” is the third chapter of Living The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron — and a timely reminder as I transition into a new season of my living.
- My focus (with my guiding word, latitude) is to move beyond my questions (and the emotional toll) of “why” and “when” and transition to a next-level acceptance regarding what has not changed.
- “The processing of raw emotions is what allows us to move from doing to becoming.” -Sherianna Boyle
- “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy” (Thomas Merton) but also, love and forgiveness does not ensure reconciliation.
- “As you are noticing patterns you are beginning to learn how to read reactivity.” -Sherianna Boyle
Creative scaffolding (designated time and sequence) enables me the comfort of a starting point and structure in this space I share my process and practice with you, dear Braveheart.
- My current writing goal: 150-ish (or less) words daily as free-writing, compiling notes from my self-directed studies and chronicling ideas from (and for) my creative work. 💖 Sometimes compiled here and published, sometimes not.
These compilations allow me to document, discern and ponder my living along amidst the ever-changing details of certainty, uncertainty and random challenges mingled with the details of daily minutia and my story-unfolding. 🔮
We must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations — projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves — and acknowledge and embrace your own liabilities and limits.
Parker J. Palmer
