This morning I woke up with this Mary Oliver quote in my mind:
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
It was as if she were calling me out of my dream time and waking me with this question. Interestingly, it hasn't elicited in me any anxiety to find the answer, but rather a very sweet and calm sense of expansion from which to marinate in the question. Today, right now in this moment of my life I actually feel like I can answer this question, even though the actual words haven't arisen in me yet.
This is different from the anxiety this question has caused me in the past, because somewhere buried deep within was the belief that I really didn't have what it took to answer it with any amount of ownership or certainty over my life. Just this shift alone, is so powerful that I am finding I want to sit with this before even going about the business of audaciously answering Mary Oliver's question.
I take this into my day... freely, unleashed and joyfully.
