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SEEING WITH EYES WIDE OPEN.
As I go around banging a loaf of bread against the walls of my home on new years eve(an Irish tradition said to drive out bad luck and encourage prosperity) I hold true to my belief that every moment of every year, day, hour, minute and second is worthy of celebration, but that the ending of the dark days of winter and the feeling of the approach of spring deserves special attention.
And as I beat the poor loaf to an inch of its life, I consciously drive out the things about myself and my life that I need to let go of (Hopefully the bread will work in a way that meditation failed to do).
And I make a promise to be gentle with myself this year.
So here is my gentling list:
G: Gardening and growing and gratitude diarying.
E: Enabling my creative side to emerge more, allotting time in my life for this.
N: nutritionally taking care of my body and spirit, meditating and yoga-ing.
T: taking time to watch the tree’s grow, the tides flow, the mountains being mountains.
L: Laughing a lot, Learning when to hold my council and when to speak out.
I: Interesting my self in new philosophies, writings and people.
N: Not berating myself for making mistakes.
G: Giving myself permission to be who I am.
M: Maybe yes! maybe no! (seeing occurrences in life with this philosophy)
Y : Ycling my yellow bicycle (with a capital ‘C’)
S: Seeing with eyes wide open
E: Enveloping life enthusiastically
L: Letting go things that are not significant to gratefulness and therefore to happiness
F: last but not least, spending time with my family and making more time to see my friends……..
Allotting time to be more creative:
The woman on the Yellow Bicycle 
I like the creativity of ‘Ycling’ – that shows a proper defiance of the rules
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indeed though gentle is my plan for this year jfmward,I will not quell the defiant spirit that lingers….its just there was no ‘D’ in my list.
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Yes! Let’s treat ourselves as newborns every day, worthy of nurture and open to all possibilities.
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Yes betteojala, It’s wonderful that we have the chance to do this, to be aware of the possibilities that come from this chance. thanks for reading 🙂
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Nice
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Thank you Farrbott 🙂
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Stephanie, you are one of the gentlest spirits I have encountered. Thanks for the ongoing inspiration
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Gary,The great thing in life is you can keep on trying and no matter how many times you fall you can pick yourself up and give it another go, Being a gentle spirit is what I aspire to but I fail a lot of the time, but I thank you for your kind words:)
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Lovely.
One way I have been “gentling” myself is to grant myself permission to not be online as much, even less than in 2014, hence my late coming to this post. May 2015 bring you much joy and the kind of abiding peace that un-gentling cannot destroy.
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A creative and stress free and onlineish free 2015 to you too Owen:) My onlining has become somewhat selfish in that I’m not perusing the work of others so much. Its wonderful to be able to say ‘I don’t have time’ It means my life is filled to the brim at the moment and with good things too, however I still have a few favorites (yourself included) that I watch out for. and sometimes when I see your drawings I get torn between my love of sketching and writing 🙂
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Happy to be numbered among the few. 🙂
(have reduced the active FB groups to two – really one and its offshoot – art/sketched related)
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