There is so much beauty around us, if we’re willing to slow down long enough to recognize it.
The first 30 minutes of my day are a sacred time for me. It’s the time I take to truly connect with myself, my God and set my intentions for the day, before the outside world comes kicking in my door with demands.
But just as important as this time, is the space in which I do it. Usually on my couch, next to the radiator which warms my home, like a shell lying in the white sand heat of Mexico. The kind of warmth that seems to start inside and move its way to the surface. My soft, delicate animal print blanket draped over my lap and a perfectly brewed cappuccino that I had to work for, in hand.
During the Christmas season, a bucket chair in the music room becomes my sacred space. Nothing more than the glow of the Christmas tree to light my reading and silence that only frigid winter mornings can produce.
These spaces are sacred because of the way they make me feel. They are steeped in beauty like a stout afternoon tea, creating an experience and a feeling of gratitude. A place I slow down to take in what is beautiful and good in myself and the world around me.
Several hours from now, this room will look and feel entirely different. It will be home to a lonely piano, waiting patiently while its player is away at school and the floors will become the hard surface my dog scrambles across when an Amazon package is delivered by a perpetrator in a hideous brown suit.
Sacred places are places we go to take in the awe of creation. Where we stop to marvel at the miracle involved in there being a world and human existence. A place we feel safe, warm and content, knowing there is beauty in being alive. You don’t have to visit dedicated sacred monuments. You don’t have to travel to distance places where divinely inspired events occurred. Sacred spaces are all around us.
This Christmas season, slow down and take in the beauty and meaning behind this season. Create a sacred space for yourself in the midst of what the outside world wants you to do to celebrate this time of year.
This is a sacred time that deserves a sacred space.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
