What's New?
EVERYTHING IS new
Q:What’s new?
A: Besides this moon? Everything. I wonder if you’ve had moments when you take a beat and look around your immediate surroundings, then go over to the mirror to look at yourself, afterward sit down and close your eyes and realize that everything you see is new. I’m having that kind of experience right now as I kick back and reflect on the recent changes in my life.
So much is new. New city, new job, new home, new haircut, new perspectives, new thoughts, new words, new gestures, new attitudes, new experiences, new views, new pathways, new commutes, new sounds, new tastes, new reflections, new memories, new learning, new growth, new friends, new conversations, new curiosities…
Sometimes I’ll be walking home after a 10-hour “work” day to my many flights walk-up apartment and I can’t help but still feel shocked that I am living here and have turned into a TGIF kind of person…it makes me laugh with total enthusiasm and encourages me to keep digging into the ever more structure and refinement just to see what will happen next.
STONES TO BRICKS
I’ve been flowing like water for so long that my edges are smooth like river rock. New York is chiseling my stones into bricks upon which I can build a new future. Who knew I would take such a rugged turn into the gritty city life that encompasses the New York that has chosen me? I say “the New York” because there are so many “New York’s”, so many realities and experiences one can have.
The multi-dimensionality is so palpable and the socio-economic disparities so obvious. It is a “hard” city. I could feel it in my bones walking through the forest while visiting my parents. I no longer felt the earthen velvet of my everyday life, rather I experienced the strength of undeniable structure and form. For example, these buildings aren’t built upon quicksand, the earth here is super strong, immeasurably powerful, and willing to uphold the greatest city in the world (according to almost everyone who I’ve talked to about the beast and the lover that is NYC).
DIFFERENT CHOICES
Do you notice the new? That which is born from making different choices in life? I have felt deeply committed to listening within and taking action upon what I hear. In doing so I feel I am constantly new. Change is a great constant, this we know. And if I don’t listen, I stagnate. There is nothing the “same” when I really follow my heartbeat of truth. Is this just my personal rhythm of transformative pop knocking on my inner threshold to the next step? Or is this a common experience, one that is either accepted or denied naturally? Resistance to change is like a dam that creates pressure that eventually bares cracks. I’ve chosen not to resist anymore but to embrace. I suppose I can thank Uranus on my moon for this and given that Uranus is now going direct, we are officially moving out of having anything retrograde for a hot cosmic moment of full direct force.
Here’s a cheers to you and to all that is new in your life. I personally am in complete awe and the excitement is building. Life is such a radical predicament. I wish us all the most enriching experiences possible that one can have as a human being. Being. Being over doing. And here’s also to more fun, expanded radiance, deeper understanding, potentiated discipline, rigor and grit, luxurious beauty, inspired design, innovative solutions, yummy nourishment, vital bodies….all of this. All of this and more of what your pure heart desires.
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