I really love Jamie Ridler — the space she provides for creativity and community, for dancing in our lives and discovering through art. She has a newsletter worth reading each month, a great series of Creative Living podcasts engaging newsletter and, perhaps my favorite, a weekly feature she offers called Wishcasting Wednesdays.
Each week she poses a question to inspire and clarify your wish. And what's more: she invites people to be a "maker of magic and a tender of wishes" by publicly sharing their wishes (she provides a cool feature where you can link to your wish) and support other's wishes, too.
As Jamie says, "There is great power in wishing together."
I love the idea of placing our wishes out into the world for all to see and hold.
I certainly believe in the power, magic and beauty of that.
I loved her Wishcasting question from yesterday:
What story do you wish to live or let go of?
It spoke to me because so much of what I'm doing lately is re-authoring my life:
Claiming myself as the sole author of my experience. And deciding what story I want to tell for this and coming chapters of my life.
I wish to let go of the story that life is hard and sucky and out to get me. The story that I'm alone in a dark forest with no one to help. The story that there are no happy endings.
What I wish instead is this...
....I wish to live in a story of possibility.
Of wonder.
Of being held by a loving universe where everything (every single thing) is unfolding as it should.
A story where I find my "star" and shine it upon everyone I meet.
A story where goodness always prevails, even through the darkest of nights.
And a story where there are flowers, poetry and picnics under an oak tree on sunshine-y June afternoons.
In short, a story that is so fascinating, entertaining, beautiful, heartfelt and moving that I never, ever want to put it down.
How about you? How would you answer Jamie's question?
I'd love to see your reply — and be sure to add yours to the other wishcaster's on Jamie's blog, here.
(Thanks, Jamie, for giving me the chance to author the story of my life from a more authentic and powerful and beauty-filled place. I needed this today.)
Image: Purple flower, living room bouquet, last week