Wishcasting, A Day Late

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

Monday Musings: You Are Like That Flower

Gerber daisy, living room bouquet

Consider the tree outside your window. It knows nothing more now, when it is fifteen feet tall and covers you with the shade of its gigantic umbrella, then it did when it was a tiny seedling. All the information that it needed in order to become what it is today was contained in its seed. It had to learn nothing. It merely had to grow. In order to grow, it used the information locked inside its cellular memory. You are not unlike that flower.

— Neale Donald Walsh, Home With God

Flowering Fridays: Trusting the Beauty

Rose, living room bouquet

Seeing this rose reminds of last part of ee cummings' poem, "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond":

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

There is something so intimate and enveloping about a rose that always draws me in.

This rose has something to teach me...about being soft, and gentle and kind and welcoming.

About how my presence (rather than my words or my actions) is truly what draws someone in.

This rose has something to show me about trust and about trusting in the beauty that I am always (and that we all are).

What can this rose teach me about trust? About allowing the beauty that I am enough?

A lot. An awful lot.

On a day, where my stomach is feeling paunchy, when I feel like I'm flailing to find my focus in launching my new project and when I feel just like going back to bed, can I trust in my beauty then? Can I relax in this knowing long enough to allow others to experience, too?

Tell me, how do you trust the beauty that you are, even you might be feeling tattered, wilty, or walking about with broken petals?

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Flowering Fridays is a weekly look at flowers through the lens of what they might teach us about flowering fully in our life. Past editions are here.