Equinox, Eclipse & Elections...

Be Encouraged

Hello Beloved,

What a jam-packed time it is been dear ones.           

How are you???

I would add one more “e” word to the list…Emotional.

It’s been an emotional time as well.

Can you relate??

Sometimes, the days feel so full that when I come to the page to write, 

so many thoughts run to the front of the line that what comes out is a jumbled mix of incoherence that has felt more like musings for journal pages rather than a public piece, let alone a love note.

But like most things or people that I’m in long-term relation with – I notice the muse circles back again. 

Sometimes sooner, and sometimes later but I’m learning that loving, whether this craft of writing, lovers, family, or friends – is an activity word.  

It means whether foreground or background, 

as solace or in jubilation,

through the waters murky and clear and

through forests dense and majestic – 

when you look to your left, I will still be walking nearby.

My writing feels like this long-term companion that just when I think it's over…what I have to say has left me,

my muse drops in with coherence, power, and urgency.

And I’m grateful.

As I walked outside this morning noticing visible changes of season – the sun a little lower in the sky, the breeze a hint cooler

She, my muse, reminds me that love moves in cycles.

And just like that…I’m compelled back to writing a Sunday Love Note.

I've missed you. 

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel..” 

-Maya Angelou

Lately, it feels like change and transformation are all around.

Personally, I've had some people dear to me pass away, recently,

I notice my parents aging,

I am aging.

These things have me realizing just how much of a cycle this life thing is and it has me reflect on being present with these cycles. 

It brought to my attention the above Maya Angelou’s quote. 

And running the risk of sounding trite or too not to sound existential, more and more its clear to me that its not what I'm able to buy, do or accumulate that matters - it's how I've been able to be present, with the gifts I have, doing what I came here to do, and loving well that people will remember and that matters the most to me.  

Some days though, staying present with life feels like a heavy lift.

So heavy that all I can do is tend to the basics of caring for myself and those immediate living things and mundane tasks. 

Recently one of the mundane tasks included taking my car to be serviced.

I’d noticed that the headlamps went out and so on this day it felt like something I could do. "New lightbulbs, not too complex," I thought. 

After the initial diagnostic, the mechanic told me that not only did my car need new replacement headlights, but the make and model of my car had received an upgraded light system years back, and it seems mine hadn’t ever had that done.

It involved installing a more expensive and powerful light and a mounting kit to not only secure the light but also to hold and manage the increased power and wattage of the light.

Ha!

I love a good metaphor. All I could think was – that checks out as a for my life, maybe for the collective as a whole.

The past things have dimmed or gone out and you can’t simply replace it with the same mechanism. Instead, a more powerful illumination is needed but to install it in our consciousness, or our lives – there’s some things inside that need to transform and change, a more powerful, stable mount to hold it.  

But once I invest, in the case of my car hundreds of dollars, the lighting upgrade will not only cover more space with a broader and brighter

spectrum, but it will also last likely the life of my car.

(cue Beyonce song ‘Upgrade U’)

This Week’s Invitation: What's Your Life's Upgrade? 

So, is there something in your life, work, heart, body, environment, relationship asking for upgrade in order to help you hold more power?

To help you be a greater light unto the world?

Feels like the transformation before as a collective is anything but comfortable and I don’t have an answer to wrap it up in a pretty package for you.

But I can say…I am here with you. And though some weeks may pass, you can count on me to circle back around with a Love Note, or some version of it as long as Love keeps having its way.

See you next week.

Be Encouraged.

Love, 

Angela