Be kind. To others. To yourself. To your creative soul.
Cheers!
It’s so simple, really
Miscellany
It is what it is
It’s Monday, it’s snowing, and it is cold. These are facts I have no control over. So using ‘it is what it is’ works here.
If I use it as an excuse for inaction though, it implies not only that this is the reality I face, but I cannot make it any different.
So, it is what it is, until you decide it isn’t.
Cheers and here’s to an empowered Monday, week, month, year.
Old becomes new
I watched this morning as the shadows from the trees grew darker from the brightness of the full moon. The new fallen snow reflected the light in stark contrast with the sapphire blue sky at 4:30 a.m., Eastern.
As I wrote my morning pages, a pleasant memory surfaced. I used to walk when the moon was full with my young daughters. Once on a camping trip at Cave Run Lake in Kentucky, I discovered a book in the visitor center that inspired me to do that very thing.
I don’t think we walked every full moon but we did it enough for it to be an adventure. Up past bedtime. Out in the woods illuminated by moonlight. The common becomes magical and mysterious. Anything is possible.
The daughters grew up and moved away and sometime during the transition from full house to empty nest, the book disappeared. Today I found a used copy of the out-of-print book from an online bookseller and ordered it.
What better time than at the full moon to renew an old practice?
First full moon of 2021 is the Wolf Moon
Tonight’s full moon is often called the Wolf Moon, according to Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd in Tonight of EarthSky. Click here for the full article.
The Wolf Moon is said to be named after hungry wolves howling in the dead of night during the cold winter month.
I can relate. I’m hungry—for the sun and warmth, I’m howling—for more daylight, and I’m alone—longing for my pack. For connections. For some sort of normalcy.
Tonight I will watch the full moon rise and I will be up early to watch it set. And I’ll be thinking of you, somewhere out there, seeing the same moon as me.
“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”
—Sojourner Truth
It’s Mug Shot Monday
The future depends on what you do today.
I found this mug at The Vault Market in Ironton, OH, one of my favorite places to visit. Two dynamic ladies, Abby and Amanda, founded this small business and have turned it into a space filled with all US made boutique gifts, artisan items, craft food and vintage/antiques.
They are living examples of doing something today your future self will thank you for.
Cheers and happy Monday!