creating beauty. today.
Radical kindness, says Anne Lamott: "Accepting life as it presents itself and doing goodness anyway, the belief that love and caring are marbled even into the worst life has to offer."
In the space we now must keep from one another, a new spaciousness emerges. It illuminates that we're all trying to cope with fear, uncertainty, all sharing the drive to find ease...to find new ways to live goodness, know love. It illuminates what we can do together in the spaces of our acceptance. A call for beauty.
Accepting life means I can actually love no matter what. Acceptance means I can consider this time, right now, a pandemic, as sacred.
Tender tendrils from the heart reaching out. Phone calls, yes. Old fashioned. Voices, laughter, tonality and music in our words and stories shared. Less distraction than zoom or facebook calls (although they have their place.) Sharing music together. Dance. A deeply creative time. What else?
We share one quest: Happiness. This is our deep humanity. This has not changed. The courage to question old beliefs, more important than ever. Resting amid, meeting in the wondrous zone of being with and through. Creating the beauty we have always yearned for, now!
To ask then: What beauty am I creating, cultivating, or inviting in today? With you? For you? For us?
The physical boundaries we have had to erect invite new spaces for our singularity and sameness to meet and merge. We continue to live in the spaces of relationships. We are not foreign to one another. This has not changed.
A greeting shared by the Zulu people of South Africa begins with Sawubona, “I see you.” All my attention is here. The traditional response is Sikhona: “I exist for you”. Because you see me, I am here. I cannot flourish without you. We cannot flourish without each other. To see each other, this love. This magical elixir in a wild and human way. Nothing and everything at once. Is beauty emerging.
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