New year, New life

Funny how time flies.  No sooner did I start this blog than my life turned upside-down and it had to be temporarily put on hold.  What with little time or brain cells left for thinking, let alone expounding on matters spiritual or animal, this post has become long overdue.  A month ago I was working full-time restoring buildings, and trying to find time for my too-abundant hobbies, quiet to feel where I was being guided spiritually, and some semblance of space for the loved ones in my life - including moi! It's interesting how when we sense we are stuck in an all too familiar rut and are spinning our wheels madly trying to get out, when we finally do find a way to move, it's often from or to a place we least expect.  When I finally stopped spinning I realized the only thing to do was to just get out of the car altogether.  It was time to move.

And so, I find myself a newly minted resident of Washington DC - today with the drivers license to prove it. It has been a month of moving, letting go, packing up, parting ways.  A month of ups and downs, tiny miracles, and new experiences.  And I am not working.  At least not in the traditional 9-5 sense as I've always done.  Days have a whole different rhythm - one I'm still learning to roll with. And yet I am, as always, busy.  Unpacking, moving a life, learning to see all the other little ruts I've been in now that I'm out of the big one.  And I have a list, a long one, of things I want to do.  Mostly though I'm ready to step out of the frantic pace of my life and create a life with more Life in it.  To listen to where I'm being guided to go, and to go there, even if it's shocking, scary, or makes me think other's will question my sanity!  After all, it is my life, and I wish to live it, not just some of the time, but everyday.  Many people I talk to express a sense of feeling a calling to some purpose in their life, and many ignore that call because it just doesn't seem possible, or even safe, to answer. I am blessed to find myself able to stop, listen, and ponder what is next, and by doing so I hope that my tiny life will create a ripple that allows someone else the space, the freedom, to entertain the possibility of "what's next for me?" and to hear the answer.

Blessings for the new year and your new life. Take it, it's yours.