When we're young, the holidays innocently sparkle with tinsel, wonder and magic. When we're adults, Thanksgiving and Christmas - like everything else, honestly - become a bit more complicated. Families coming together with everyone at a different stage, dealing with different stressors at very different levels of awareness and personal responsibility. Coin this with the ever so often run-in with past lovers at home watering holes or even just friendships that once were but today are no longer. Well, I was gifted the opportunity to grow from all of these last week, which rattled me for sure. But today I woke up (at 5:30 am - go me) with a fierce discipline to keep my head down for the rest of this year. Because I can't worry about anyone else right now. The life I'm creating will not happen by accident, which means I have to show up every day and consciously create it. This also means that some people are going to fall by the wayside, and that's okay, too.
So this weeks food for thought is an incredibly powerful (and unshakably true) quote by Ram Dass, who said: I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.
