Refining the discipline…

I said every day, I meant, for three. ;-)

While it’s been exhilarating (yes this is an extremely informal and in that sense intimate reflection space, for those readers just stumbling across… ;-)), As I was saying it’s been exhilarating to once again return to a clear and specific discipline of writing and publishing.

Between 5 January, 2020 and 4 January, 2021 (for those that don’t know) I practiced a focus on writing and publishing a personal narrative reflection on the life and thoughts unfolding in my field. I wrote and shared something of substance nearly every day that year, with only a few exceptions for hospitalization or other extreme circumstance.

The motivation to return to this focus came from an exquisite engagement I enjoyed recently with Dr. D. I found his approach unique and personally refreshing. In a seemingly effortless conversational flow he introduced me to the general principles of constitutional elements in the Ayurvedic tradition, identified those most pertaining to my own circumstance, and punctuated our friendly engagement with easy and casual indications of simple practices to undertake.

That was on the surface. Somehow, underlying the journey of just over an hour, subtle energies began to shift and stir within the field of my self sense and overarching natural intentions. There were no dramatic, aha moments. Nothing new, really. And yet…

Somewhere in the deeper currents, like the butterfly effect, as if tiny pebbles were moved only slightly, and yet the resulting currents would change the course of the river downstream, perhaps for lifetimes to come.

So, among other things, I decided to write and publish again on a schedule, with clarity, intention, and certainty. To begin to etch the groove, I would do so daily.

Having had most of the week to integrate and reflect on the engagement, my calendar has begun to reorganize, existing projects, loosely held visions, and long overdue integrations are falling into something more akin to coherent mandala.

I have lived now for years in the desert of endurance. I feel a new dawn. My commitment to live a life of love and compassion has matured and deepened in this exile. I have been surrounded by the spirits (and indeed the flesh and bone) of goodwill, and find myself refreshed to bring these values into the material in refined form.

Among those most immediately visible to a wider audience will be these pages of published writing. I sat today for a few hours to give organization and structure to this new discipline (a task in itself which will take some days or possibly weeks). Of that consideration, I have clarified the intent to these pages. What was once a daily writing practice, will now be a practice of new daily creative focused discipline. The writing I will publish once a week on the weekends.

There may be spontaneous other bits, but I will craft something to express that love and compassion within the bounds of that new heartbeat.

Thank you and stay tuned…