(today- playing in Tara's leaf pile)
"Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. we live and die, age beautifully or full of wrinkles. We wake in the morning , buy yellow cheese, and hope we have enough money to pay for it. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth." -Natalie Goldberg
Lately I have been feeling very introspective. I don't know if it's because the end of the year is nearing or...if it's because I have a birthday coming up (43 is just around the corner) or...because we are smack in the middle of another move. But-
whatever the reason-I find myself assessing what I really want, the person I want to become and taking stock of my life. Not the surface things...but the deep down under my skin kind of things. I have been writing pages and pages in my journal and when I really distill the essence of what I want, it is this:
no matter what I am doing...I want to see the sacred in the ordinary. I want to see the pure magic in a pile of golden leaves, little toes painted blue and...sunlight. It is the everyday moments that comprise the mythical
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I want to live that. Not some day...but right now.
4 comments:
oh, good for you. you are definitely living in the moment - such a rich space! let us know where you are moving (i hope it is near me!)
Knowing what you want is the beginning of getting there, and so you, my inspirational friend, are on the path...
me too...me too! I love this post, Soraya. It's just beautiful, and exactly where I want to be.
Wow! I love the words and feelings in this post. Spoken from the deepest part of your heart with a longing that will make it so. If we could all want that, see that ~ wouldn't it be over the top beautiful!!
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