It’s been a productive 24 hours in my wee corner of the Universe.
My joints and muscles are screaming. My heart is dancing!
First, beast grooming.
Wow, were we behind! (Or, if you’d prefer a positive re-frame… ready!)
We’re talking about 250 pounds of dogs… before you get to the hair. And, honestly, it’s a challenge when a knee and a shoulder and the dominant hand/wrist are all certain they’ve been overworked and underpaid.
Then there’s the fact that the biggest of the big dogs sees with his heart instead of his eyes.
There is, however, huge joy in this story!
Nope… Westminster is not on the list for next year. However, there’s roughly 14 sheep worth of undercoat in the trash, the nails are trimmed and Luther was very, very brave. Phoebe is always fine, as long as there’s a continuous supply of treat crumbs coming her way. (She’s already set to paint some more!)
Huge thanks to the mobile Groomer-Friend for being patient with our peculiarities and the Legendary Husband for a couple hours worth of sweeping!
And, amongst all that progress, my Muse has been busy, which is to say that Inspiration abounds!
Inspiration of the sort my long time hypnotherapy teacher refers to as one step reframe with a big gold bow!
That part happened somewhere during the Colbert re-run last night… which takes us back to my obsession with context!
It was the episode that aired just after the 5th Select Committee hearing on the January 6 insurrection. Beto O’Rourke was Stephen’s guest. They were, predictably, re-hashing all the ways the Re-Trumplicans are trying to drag the world back into the Middle Ages.
The reframe bit didn’t happen on tv. It happened inside my heart, in a place right next to all of Frederick Buechner’s books.
Then, it moved to my sketch book, where I’d been doodling a Vision Plan which kept getting bigger and bigger as I worked.
Bigger in the sense of involving more and more parts of me.
There is, however, only so much re-framing that can happen without sleep, so I made a deal with the Muse and Grandmother Moon.
They would be welcome to make magic during the usefully rhythmic movement part of the grooming adventure if they’d let me sleep… and they did.
So, some more doodling. And arranging. And enlisting of my new Insight painting journey which will begin tomorrow. (There’s still time to sign up… just in case you, too, are hatching a plan to make life better. And it’s free! https://musea.org/insight/ )Beginners welcome! That’s last year’s Insight, above. The only thing I know for sure about this new one is that she’ll have different things to add to the journey!
And some editing. I’ll keep you posted!
For now, just this… I feel like the scattered pieces of me are being called back together and re-formed for my journey forward… instead of the one to the past! And that, dear hearts, feels fabulous!
ps… feeling inspired??? Start here! It’s fast and fun and free. And you don’t have to do it alone!
