Dear First name / Friend
As we cross the threshold into 2024 I urge you to collect your seeds of intention. Allow your heart to whisper dreams of how you want to show up in the world. As your hopes flutter into your awareness plant them in imaginary soil (maybe a journal?) and begin watering them with your attention. Do not be shy, close your eyes and let yourself imagine, you are deserving of your dreams. And sometimes the gestation of a seed is years and others a few short months, so plant them with intention not expectation.
As we go forth together into 2024, let us devote ourselves to tending to these seeds. As they grow we will be better resourced for our family, community, and ultimately the world.
As Martha Postlewaite beautifully reminds us in her poem, Clearing
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.
Let us all create a clearing in the dense forest of life, and pay attention to our heart's knowing. I promise, she has a language. Her wisdom travels through the cardiac nerve up the brain stem, through the right hemisphere of the brain, across the Corpus Callosum and ultimately into your left hemisphere where it turns into a thought. (The neuroscience nerd inside is smiling)
I am wishing you all a very very happy new year. I am so grateful to have you here in this community, thank you so much for receiving and supporting my work. Below I am sharing the many seeds I am sowing in the world, I hope you will help me water them! For we can't grow a garden alone.
Last but not least, a new years prayer for you my friend:
May your seeds for this new year be released from the soft, velvet petals of your heart and land in nitrogen rich soil where they will thrive, blossom and feed your beautiful life. Let it be so.
