Good morning from New York City. Today is Day One of a new segment of Dear Constance. This idea came to me when I went back and started reviewing my goals for 2023. If you haven’t heard, I’m leaving New York City October 1st for five months, and I’m going through old notebooks and looking at some of the notes I made for myself at the beginning of the year. One of them says this. Experiment and make space and time for my voice to emerge. I also wrote down in my notes ‘experiment equals conscious incompetence.’ In this spirit of experimentation, I’m introducing a new segment. I want to be playful and try this out.

So, Wednesday’s segment is going to be on questions. It could be questions that come from you, my friends and listeners. Questions I’m asking myself and sharing with you. Or in the spirit of David Whyte, beautiful questions. Beautiful questions are questions that can’t be answered by the strategic mind alone. They reorient our trajectory in life. Rilke called them lived questions. Gay Hendrix calls them wonder questions and he talks about humming. Hmm. Humming integrates the right and left hemispheres of the brain, and it takes us out of the purely intellectual sphere into the realm of mind, body, spirit.

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