Scintilla

From James Clear - one of my faves. I love his book Atomic Habits

"The world rewards you for value provided, not time spent."

"The important thing is not to keep winning, but to keep reaching."

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We live in such a linear world it's easy to forget that our true nature has a rhythm and loves cycles. Plant the seed, weather the storm, curse the horn worm, lament the failures, rejoice and harvest the fruit. The seeds may have been planted at the same time - but what happens next is a wild ride and dictates where focus is required.

Pay attention. The rhythm and not rules are your clock.

3-2-1: Leave room for the unexpected 3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “The world rewards you for value provided, not time spent.” ​II. “The important thing is not to keep winning, but to keep reaching.” III. “Always leave room for the unexpected. A buffer of time, a little extra money, a reserve of goodwill. You won't be maximizing every...

Poem - Tuesday Psychic Pick ; )

LEAD

Here is a story
to break your heart.
Are you willing?
This winter
the loons came to our harbor
and died, one by one,
of nothing we could see.
A friend told me
of one on the shore
that lifted its head and opened
the elegant beak and cried out
in the long, sweet savoring of its life
which, if you have heard it,
you know is a sacred thing,
and for which, if you have not heard it,
you had better hurry to where
they still sing.
And, believe me, tell no one
just where that is.
The next morning
this loon, speckled
and iridescent and with a plan
to fly home
to some hidden lake,
was dead on the shore.
I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world. ~Mary Oliver

(art by Roslyn Ramsay)