Day 140j: Remembering to Be NowHere … (September 16, 2019)
“Sometimes, even when I’m standing on a remarkable slice of terra firma, I’m besotted with wanderlust, my heart thumping for the next unknown place and my mind wondering what’s beyond the next horizon. And yet right now, walking smoothly along this roadway, floating through crystalline shadows while treading upon ancient, sacred soil, I want to be nowhere else. Nowhere. This, right now, right here – smack dab in the middle of NowHere – is Home to me. I can hear the Divine whispering through the rustling of the leaves and the scurry of insects on their bark. I can hear the laughter of children slipping over the stones in the creek burbling nearby. Everything here is unfamiliar, and yet also so perfectly known. We humans are transient, ever vagabonds and wanderers at heart, and yet we’re tethered fast as well – tied to our earth, to our history, to our sentience, to your home … And so I must believe that all my sentient cousins are worth living for, even when my ego refuses to acknowledge the same. I pause in this flowing amble and seek out the memories that previous depressions have taken from me and I re-project them into this newer Now. And it is in this reborn instant that I smile and choose bravery – and integrity – and strength. I choose decency – and kindness – and service – and sacrifice. I reason with my Soul when it seems to have lost all reason, and I remember to Love when my mind would have me forget & abandon the same..” ~ inspired by Tish Oxenreider & Andrew Solomon
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