#MicroPoetry|October ’20 Reflections

One more book, a little more research, just one other interview … there’s always more information that can be gathered, digested and then …

Whether we are ever ready to bring hopes and dreams into reality is something upon which to reflect. I am not sure we are ever actually fully prepared. We need to take that step into the unknown. It is in the anxious and expectant energy that both propels and frightens that we can connect with doing a new thing. Not necessarily easy, but when we begin, I have found is when we feel most alive.

Be that which you are meant to be.

What does that mean?
How do we find our thing?

For each person, the answer is different, found at distinct times and in multiple ways. Though there may be no consistent, repeatable formula, I have come to recognise one consistent way that happens, and that is practice.

Practice, intention, discipline are ways that we make space to hear that thing whispered to us. Sometimes its not even a whisper, it is a blatant shout from Creator. However, we choose to hear and learn of the blessing we are, it is indeed a gift to awaken to the reality that you, me, we are Blessed.

Music is an amazing thing! In so many ways it influences our very being. Whether that is as a player or listener, creator or participant, the science of the brain continues to demonstrate the manner in which we literally light up when we engage in the art form, regardless of how that might be.

As I was writing this musing, I was also aware that we emit electrical fields which can be measured in various ways, include with sound. This amazing reality mean we are in fact creating notes and what a wonder to imagine that when we come together, we are, in fact, part of a larger harmony than we could individually imagine.

I find fear a fascinating emotion. In particular, how too often in pop culture, it is framed negatively or as a weakness. This clearly is the furthest thing, literally, from the truth.

Evolutionary science demonstrates that the oldest part of our brain harnesses fear for our very survival, both as individuals and as a species. What a gift, therefore, to apply our ability to think critically and creatively to this primal part of ourselves, in order to do things yet unimagined.

Being dissuaded to stop or cajoled to cease in a pursuit true is an unfortunate reality. Whether such discouragement is on account of our own inner doubt or the external pressures to fail, it is easy to let go of that which inspires us.

As I was considering the image of a wall, it occurred to me this might be a metaphor for this verse. The more I considered what we might, initially, consider that something might seem immovable and insurmountable, it became clear that is an illusion. As with all barriers, there are options if we but take the time to see opportunity before us.

In the physical vessels that allow our souls to experience this physical world, it is easy to be tempted to only see life as that which you touch. But underlying this physical reality, which we all experience, is beauty. Time shapes us, as it does all life, animate and inanimate, in which ways that are wonderous, even magical.

When you look out into this new day, what beauty do you see that you had not the day before?

External validation or direction is a touchstone in this consumer world in which we live. We often defer to Experts, as we dismiss our own knowing. Such internal wisdom takes care to recognise and often requires us to do so in the midst of a community of co-learners. When we nurture such connexions, we not only awaken to our own gifts of knowing but recognise our shared ability to shape a world in which others also so awaken.

Failure is a reoccurring theme in our world. It is framed in the negative and, in turn, can serve to limit dreaming and innovation. Nothing comes to be without risk. The risk, the failure, is the teacher that allows us to create that which others might consider mere fancy.

What lessons have you learned from trying and stumbling?
What did those lessons allow you to do that otherwise would not have been possible with that bold step?