photo from The Book of Life
It is that time of the year as they say, “A full year in calendar terms has gone by”.
… Or if we wanted to rephrase the whole thing, we have experienced and played through many moments and added those to our field. Expanding, expanding, expanding…
This has been for me definitely a period of seeing deeper and with new eyes, shifting perspectives and re-wiring old and planting new. One of the major journeys has been sitting with the old from a new perspective rather than making old “bad” or resisting or judging or trying to fix or change it. Just sitting, accepting what seems to be good/bad, right/wrong, ok/painful whatever. Sometimes it can be quite challenging to sit with parts of you that felt quite right at the time and now realizing your filters weren’t so clean or true then: Combination of contraction, heartbreak, disappointment, grief and resolution, forgiveness and peacemaking, waltzing along this spectrum just sitting with it all. This processing is sure to give me an expanded perspective and a deeper trust in my capability to embrace whatever there is to come. I can already feel it in my body. It is already showing up as some form of inner and outer gentleness – and I am grateful for it.
That is why I am even more excited about changing the way I/we look at things, rephrasing, redefining and making new without shunning the “old”. That is why this year is not gone by or lost and instead we have expanded and gained so much experience.
Which immediately reminds me of this beautiful Japanese art of Kintsugi:
“Translated as “golden joinery,” Kintsugi (or Kintsukuroi, which means “golden repair”) is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a special lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Beautiful seams of gold glint in the cracks of ceramic ware, giving a unique appearance to the piece.
This repair method celebrates each artifact’s unique history by emphasizing its fractures and breaks instead of hiding or disguising them. Kintsugi often makes the repaired piece even more beautiful than the original, revitalizing it with new life. “ Kintsugi definition from My Modern Met
I love that we have lots of lights, gold and silver and sparkles during the Holidays, welcoming in the new year. It reminds us to celebrate – not only the coming of the new but also the journey, the growing pains and joys, the being.
The more we can witness, bless and honor all parts of ourselves, we are putting in light, making peace and celebrating all of life. We are growing “G-OLD”.
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