10.30.23

Thought

Wandering is the best way I know to feed that flame, to answer those questions. Wandering – but with a conscious step, an openness to experience. “Wandering” may sound aimless, a flotsam and jetsam drift, but it is as purposeful in its way as the migration of monarchs each fall. Like their erratic, drifting flight, it only looks aimless taken each step at a time. In the larger picture a good wander is a search for questions, for the answers that lead inevitably – and happily – to more questions. I may not see the pattern if I look only at individual shards in their cryptic, broken makings, turning them over in my mind, but from the perspective of time my wandering is as intentional as the butterfly’s and as necessary. It is taking me where I most need to go, allowing room for growth and time for learning.

— Cathy Johnson. Lost in the Woods - Creators on Creating.

Quote

Polymath Albert Schweitzer on priorities:

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

 Intention of the Day

My intention today is to be willing to release anything that no longer serves me.

Happy Monday,

Val