slow simmer

(thanks to rebellesociety.com for the quote)

Over and over and over, i'm getting there. Feeling charged with goodness this week -- at least, when i'm not reprimanding the cat for climbing on me while I try to pee (again).

It's all about giving things time. No one can rush the process of navigating through grief, loss and anger. Taking things slowly is the most respectful thing I can do for myself (and often, for others as well), and I am going to promise myself not to let the summer rush take over my sense of growing calm.

I can thank SARK for some of that sense of due process. I've just finished reading Make Your Creative Dreams Real, and am very grateful for the uplifting note she ends the book with:

"For your tiny and large kindnesses, for your glad heart and your confused tears, for your stumbling and yearning. For your endearing soul and rare insights, for your impossible moods and hopeless moments. For your rage and despair and explorations in shadows and darkness, for your resistance and conflict and refusal to feel good, or do good things. For your selflessness and especially for your selfishness. For your pathetic vulnerable times and for all your splendidly human moments. For your will and suffering. For everything that you've tried to hide. For your failings and attempts and for all that you have lost and found. For your regrets and loneliness and for every fear that has ever stalked you. For your neurotic bumbling. For radiant knowledge and countless expressions of love. You are inspiring to me because you are exquisitely YOU."

Many blessings and a happy Solstice week to everyone.

The Three Sisters: always there, always beautiful