Current:
The Root Note
wishing for fall weather and corduroy pants
anticipating adventure
content in my circumstances
I mean it- I am content. Not necessarily content in every angle of life. I certainly wish I was surrounded by more of the people that I dearly love, in my Eau Claire home, and if I'm being really picky I wish it was raining. But overall, I am content. This summer has been different than I had anticipated. Certainly more quiet than I had expected- but I have found this to be a good thing. I have learned more about the things in life that I love. And you know what? I think that's pretty neat.
I hope that as life goes on we all learn to love more and more things, deeper as we age, and that our capacity for a deeper love just comes naturally as we learn to see things more beautifully.
Maybe in 5 years I will learn that I possess a deep love for trivia, and in 10 years I will discover my affinity for wine culture, or in 15 years I will wonder how I lived without sci-fi novels my whole life. (Not saying that I will live that long, or that any of those things are really on my radar, but hey- that's the beauty of it!) I think that many people try and convince us to live quite the opposite, but I'm not having that. As my dear friend Alexi often reminds me, "the art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible."
So let's keep on loving deeper, friend. There's always more to discover.