Celebrating Change

Welcome to May! As I am preparing to move my life and my family from one coast of the country to the other, I am becoming very aware of the art of making transitions.

In addition to what's happening in our home, Nature seems to be echoing my focus on change--how glorious yet sometimes painful it can be to tranform oneself from one form to another. Eggs are hatching, goslings that are now cute yellow babies will be gangling teenage birds by the end of the month, and a close friend is growing in girth as she prepares to birth a new human into the world. Life--what a strange string of transitions it is.

This month, you too might want to think about the transitions you are making in your own life. What is the world around you teaching you about the graceful (and sometimes not so graceful) act of change? Keep your eyes open for miracles. They are on their way!


WELCOME IT ALL

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture,
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
For some new delight."

-Rumi, 13th century mystic


KEEP ON KEEPING ON

“Keep on beginning and failing.

Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose--

Not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

-Anne Sullivan