Little or big, practical or cosmic
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Tis the season to be jolly? Nothing like a stocking full of expectation to ashen anyone’s spirit.
The reality of life is so much more complex than the holiday songs sing. So today, I want to extend arms of understanding—a simple acknowledgment that you are showing up for the theatrical production called Your Life. And maybe right now it feels like a ten act drama-tragicomedy-broadway musical. Or for others, a small, amateur community production. It doesn’t matter if you’ve forgotten your lines, if the stage is empty or if the audience went home early. Stand under the warmth of center stage and feel the billions of others doing the same—a galaxy of twinkling spotlights bound together by the immediacy of our stories. We each do our best to believe in the script, learn as we go, and give it our all until it’s time for curtain.
So while you stand within the light of inquiry and the generous hearts who are here to listen, what did your character learn in 2023? Did it change how you operate day-to-day or blow your entire narrative to bits? How will you integrate this into the new year? I’d love to hear whatever you want to offer, the little or big, the practical or cosmic.
In 2023, I learned that no-till veggie gardens and their mycorrhizal communities are the bomb.
I learned that the story of our universe may be starting to unravel. Yowza.
I learned that when I muster up the courage to share my story, there are fascinating, kind, wickedly smart humans waiting to hold me in the sharing. Double yowza. And a hearty thank you to anyone reading, because, here you are.
What little (or cosmic) nugget of wisdom landed in your life this past year?
"a galaxy of twinkling spotlights bound together by the immediacy of our stories." -- nrggh-yes, this this.
It's been a year, for sure. I don't really understand how it's actually mid-December, but then I imagine I say that at this time every year.
I do enjoy pulling back and reflecting on things, though, and even in hardship it is useful to think of lives as a narrative (esp. as a character) with many branching possibilities and where they might lead. There are things that have gone to plan. There are things that have very much failed to go to plan. But, it's OK. My character learned a lot of new stuff, but perhaps the best thing it gained experience from is in writing, weekly, for the first time in my life. It's been an outlet, a joy, a creative nourishment that somehow I only came to understand in 2023.
Thanks for the reflective and motivating post, Kimberly.
"Stand under the warmth of center stage and feel the billions of others doing the same—a galaxy of twinkling spotlights bound together by the immediacy of our stories. We each do our best to believe in the script, learn as we go, and give it our all until it’s time for curtain." I like this! But not sure I believe in the script as much as make it up as I go along.