July 4

PATIENCE MONTH: DAY 4: “Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.” ― Anne Lamott

This is such a great quote for me…I am so impatient with myself and my process sometimes. I think I am supposed to be “somewhere”, even though I cannot tell you where that is. This is our sense of constant dissatisfaction with our lives, our journeys, and who we are…chronic malcontents, right? So it says in my copy of the BB. I get that! And I am happy with this quote because of the incredible sisterhood I feel with Anne Lamott…our journeys are so similar, and she has written many things that I have written in a different phrasing time after time. Her writing resonates with me…and her story is so parallel with mine that it amazes me! I love this writing about patience, because I get to explore those areas of myself and my life where I am being less than patient. I am a gardener, and have tremendous patience with the miracle of growth in my plants and flowers. I love seeing the changes that come each day…and the miraculous process of planting a seed or a seedling and watching it produce flowers or food for me…what miracles they are! Every tomato and zucchini connects me to the process of this Universal energy and love I am longing to experience more deeply. So I am in love with doing this, because it gives me constant connection; as does the ocean and animals and the sky, etc. Being in Nature is my thing, and always has been. The magnificence of the ocean is my power source, as is the sun…definitely a sun worshipper! I know I am, and always have been, solar-powered. I do not do well with cloudy or cold weather, which is why I am so content and happy with the life I have right now, this minute! I am sitting in contentment and loving life. My friend Jerry sent me a wonderful quote from his mother, whose age I will not disclose, but is substantial and to be celebrated! She is around the blue marble many times and has the advantage of having lived long enough to be considered someone of deep wisdom. When he asked her what lesson she has learned in her many years, she told him: “Wait, and take what comes.” I shared this with several friends, because it is profound to me and was to them. There is no lesson more powerful than to allow the Universe to unfold in its own time. As I gather quotes for this month, I re-read so many things that have become somewhat over-used in our culture; but remain deeply powerful for their wisdom, which can only be gained with time and living. There are many hundreds of things said about the patience we require to sit with time and become comfortable with allowing things to be what they are meant to be and where they are meant to be and for people to unfold into the lives they are here to live. That is the challenge of our humanity…to accept the Universe as it is and wait to see the amazing perfection it has to show us…nothing by mistake, right?