Aligning

This whole experience, the world, has become a daily practice of releasing ourselves from the vision of the expectation. The plans. The “shoulds”…the “definites”. It’s become trading petty for presence. Awareness of which is which. Prioritizing our children’s mental health above all else. Their job becomes only comfort, safety and kindness as all else is let go. Daily practice equates to daily struggle. Daily balance between the need to be leaned on, and the desperate need to lean. Choosing battles carefully. Wisely. Expending and rationing energy carefully. Wisely. Sun up. Sun down. Round and around as we feed off one another. Delicately. Cautious to not push the other out of balance. Keeping watch. Tinkering and making necessary adjustments, hour by hour. It may end and it may not. These new lessons may become our gospel that shapes the life to come. The lessons may also be forgotten if and when the old pace returns. There are many moving parts to this New World. But only one choice to make the best of all of it. Come what may. A softer, more gentle life.

Be well, Friends
Sam