It interests me deeply when I "construct the umbrella" which you all provide me. While I "go with the flow", I have listed categories for posts. As to my post title, I wonder if the phrase, "Happy New Year" has evolved so rapidly that we scarcely keep up with it.
Of course! Who doesn't wish to be happy? Yet..... learning (which, for me, encompasses experience, compassion, perhaps a real rasher of disappointment and/or sadness in that process) usually takes us through a "dark night of the soul" (What, again?!?!). The only way is straight through the middle, I am told...and believe. Like many of you, that "middle" is chock full of kicking and screaming. That is, until we settle down and soak up all those stages of grief. That is, until we can find some perverse humor embedded in the process. That is, until we mature into a place where we accept ... yes, accept ... that a particular experience is simply in our lives.
It is then that we return to "Houston" ... safe for take-off. True, we may be wizened, more clearly self-defined, purified, disinfected, and with almost a "post-modern", conscious mindset.
That process is rich and "the path less taken". It feels perilous and terrifying at first. That feeling is not the outcome; it is merely confronting our own resistance.
So, I no longer wish for myself a "happy" New Year. I wish for myself one whose (as usual!) bounty is discovered as courage, "staying power", a sort of Viagra for the soul and spirit! This world is on a multi-faceted trajectory, the likes of which we haven't seen before. I wish for you the same... the little blue pill of soul and heart courage. Many will not "make it". They will balk from doing "the work" because it simply seems easier to maintain the status quo. I challenge each of you not to balk.....in a broad definition, that "status quo" is the kiss of death.
Madelaine
That process is rich and "the path less taken". It feels perilous and terrifying at first. That feeling is not the outcome; it is merely confronting our own resistance.
So, I no longer wish for myself a "happy" New Year. I wish for myself one whose (as usual!) bounty is discovered as courage, "staying power", a sort of Viagra for the soul and spirit! This world is on a multi-faceted trajectory, the likes of which we haven't seen before. I wish for you the same... the little blue pill of soul and heart courage. Many will not "make it". They will balk from doing "the work" because it simply seems easier to maintain the status quo. I challenge each of you not to balk.....in a broad definition, that "status quo" is the kiss of death.
Madelaine
