Flight

Learning and working and getting used to the idea of dedicating myself to creating whenever I get the chance. It is no longer about getting the chance, it is about taking the chance, taking a risk, taking the time.

Spend some time watching nature. I saw a butterfly flying yesterday. It flitted here and there, wild and tangled in its own convoluted flight pattern. With all that darting back and forth it caught my eye, and yet with all that spasm of flight it still seemed to land where it wanted to, and even if it didn't, it took off and tried again.

Similarly we all follow a strange trajectory, a finite and at times unknowable path through life, finding ourselves on a flower at times, or sometimes in a heap of sh*t. What makes it beautiful isn't the path we take or the number and beauty of things we land on and touch, but the fact that we fly at all.

Be present for all your high flying moments, whether mundane, amazing or otherwise.

Rain

Creative Freedom

When we realize what we have to do, it makes us wonder why we didn't come to that conclusion earlier. Create more than you consume. Create and share. By creating more than you consume, you create a surplus, and when you have a surplus, you can share it. You could sell it instead; that would be your choice. I choose to share it. That's what I am doing on this blog. I am sharing the excess of my creations. So just a short thought today.....

1. Create more than you consume.

2. Create and share.

I am following those two steps to creative freedom. Come join me!

Success

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

The secret to success is focusing all your energies, not on abhorring what you don't want, but on embracing what you do.

"Do you want to get understood?" - Spoon

Once in a Lifetime

I went for a walk today at lunch and that was terrific. I saw a white-tailed deer just standing in front of my path. It was a once in a lifetime moment and I had trouble slowing down to enjoy it. But I did enjoy it. Every moment is once in a lifetime. Nothing comes twice. We are only here once, and we are here to enjoy this life. Everything only happens once, it is all a once in a lifetime moment, one after another. Stand back and enjoy it. Get in there and enjoy it. Either way, enjoy it all, it only happens once.

And that is a happy thing that everything only happens once. Something can't be happy. Only someone.

Single file line of experience, that is how it all happens. That is how we perceive it to be and how it really is. But we often mistake seemingly similar situations for the same situation, but we are never in the same exact situation or scenario twice. Nothing is repeated exactly to the tee.

I need not be afraid of anything. I am able to be present and focused and part of humanity at all times.

I am not swayed. I am a part of the whole. There is nothing separate.

I am breathing deeply and that certainly helps.

What is here and now I must accept. Presence is my power. Presence is my power to get where I need to go. Deep breathing helps with presence.

All I know is that I am headed in the right direction. I am going the right way.

The constant pursuit of presence; the knowledge that we are all the same; we all want the same feelings of belonging and feeling to be a part of it. I can help other people feel they are a part of something large and good and important. I have that power. It is not a power it is a strength. I have that strength to make others feel included. It is all a part of moving forward, of becoming what we are meant to be.

We all have a destination and a meaning to get to. We will all get there at the right time.