Good morning from Montauk. We’re going home in a couple of days and I want to hold on to this sweet summertime feeling I have. I feel highly sensitive. I’m tuned in to the stars and the birds. I’m flooded with loving feelings towards my friends, and generally to a lot of joy. I was starting to feel sad about things coming to an end. and I woke up with a total reframe, and here’s what it is. “What do I get to do next?”
I shifted my energy and I started thinking about the fact that Fall is when I feel my best. I love the new beginning of September. I don’t know whether that’s related to the excitement as a child to go back to school. I grew up in a place that was super hot, so the end of August and early September was the time you started to get the cool breeze coming in and you started putting on your jean jacket. I’ve always felt excited about the new beginning in the Fall. So, all this to say, I want to be present to what I have for the next couple of days here, yet I don’t want to shut out those feelings of what’s next and what’s coming. What do I get to do next feels like a good way to reframe it.
Anyway, my instinct when I got up this morning was to start reconnecting with the world and the first thing I did is I sent out a message to my pod group – my group of gals with whom I have been on this podcasting journey. I’ve spoken about them in the past. I’ve not met any of them face to face, yet we share this connection and this intimacy and realness that is somehow comforting and very gratifying. Then I sent a couple of messages to friends who I’ve been out of contact with, and I started to slowly reconnect with going home. Then, of course, I stumbled upon that perfect thing. Exactly what I needed to read, feel and think about in this very moment. So, I thought I’d share it today because I think this feeling of summer ending and going back to real life and starting again is something that we’re all facing.
This comes from the great poet philosopher David Whyte from his poem called Coleman’s Bed. It says this: Find that far inward symmetry to all outward appearances. Apprentice to yourself. Begin to welcome back all that you sent away. Be a new annunciation. Make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in yourself. I love that so much. I’m going to read it again. Find that far inward symmetry to all outward appearances. Apprentice to yourself. Begin to welcome back all you sent away. Be a new annunciation. Make yourself a door through which to be hospitable even to the stranger in yourself.
This reminded me that I don’t want to grasp. I want to look forward to going back home, and I like this idea of ‘apprenticing to myself’ – to being hospitable to the stranger in me as I think about what I get to do next. Who do I get to become next?
The one thing I know for sure is this. I feel so lucky to be alive. I’ll leave you with that thought today. My wish for you is that you love up your friends and family and have a wonderful weekend. Until next time from my heart to yours.
