The heart of the hurricane

Bern, your visual description of what my life, and the lives of so many others, really looks like is so on pointe, especially right now as my mind is flooded with information, choices, and decisions.The stillness is beckoning, and I'm heeding its call by completely unplugging for 3 days in a self-led meditation retreat in the coming month, and I have YOU to thank as one of the beautiful influences in my life who reminds me how much I deserve this beautiful still space. Thank you sweet friend for all of the beautiful work that you do.

@suddenlyjamie Thank you for your RT <3 U friend!

Sweet Bernardo. 

I don't know what it is about your posts that almost always bring me to tears ... mostly the good kind. I'm chalking it up to the intervention of the Universe - always putting your words in my path when I need to hear them most. 

My beau and I took most of last week off while my daughter was spending a week with her dad. My darling and I decided not to go away, but to just stay at home and do all the little things that we never seem to have time for in our regular lives. Our primary goal was to slow the hell down. Breathe. Sleep late. Rest. Go with the flow. Be quiet. 

We spent two lovely days on the gorgeous beach in my town - ten miles of white sands and crystal water which was - despite being the Atlantic - quite warm after months in the summer sun. We walked. We talked. We were quiet. We took naps. I could almost feel the noise and rush of my hurricane edges settling and falling away - opening a wider and wider path to that quiet place in my heart. My head began to clear. It felt great. 

Even though I returned to my home office yesterday, I am so far managing to hold onto that feeling of openness and connection. I know there will be days when I'll lose it, but I think I'll be able to find my way back now. 

Finding the center and establishing a home there is so important to a life well lived. We each have to be able to hear the whisperings of our own hearts if we are ever to know the secrets and dreams that are ours to hold and realize. 

Thanks, as always, for bringing me back to center. 

@babacita Thank you for your RT :)