Today’s my birthday…

But I’m not sharing that to get more cake or well wishes. Today I’m trying to remind myself of some things that should be with me not only today, but every day!

Every day can be a celebration of life if I choose it to be. Marking today is a reminder to be grateful for the continuous opportunity to embrace, express and create. It doesn’t matter so much what happens, but it REALLY matters how I choose to meet each moment.

I’m reminding myself that I can choose my stance, my state, my response and my expression. I can choose to be a life artist. In fact, I remember someone once told me that he saw my life as performance art.

Perhaps that’s what I do, moving around the world in that giant Open Space of life and popping up like a happy bumblebee (or Humble-bee) or sitting around like a butterfly seeing who else will show up.

So in my next chapter I want to be both more passionate and more playful. Easeful and full of action. Light and also deep.

I want to move with love and intention and allow delight and curiosity to lead the way.

Our indigenous friends tell us that everyone belongs. You cannot NOT belong, no matter what anyone else says. That’s worth remembering.

I’ve been someone wondering about HOME for most of my life. And if that is the place from which I draw my being, then I want to know deeply that I carry it within in me. Always. It has been there all along.

I am also reminding myself what Rumi once said, that ours is not to seek for love, but to remove all the boundaries to it. I want to keep that door open.

So, come on, LOVE, come in through this door and burst out again through all the windows! I’m inviting abundant flow…

I heard inside me: “Make of these moments a joyous tapestry of co-creation.” And I intend to do that.

Are you with me?

#storyactivist #storytelling #happybirthday #joy