Desperately Seeking Stillness
It’s late morning. I am enjoying some French Earl Grey. If you have not tried it, please do.
There is something about the occasional blue cornflower fragrance and taste that transcends.
My heart is heavy and tired.
In opening my heart more fully and being as present as possible, I am more permeable.
I feel more of all the things.
I am alive and vibrant in different and new ways.
Porous. Pulsating.
To stay as fully the evolving me as I want to be, my heart requires rest.
I must resist my inclination to shut down or turn off as well as to continue as is. Neither are sustainable options.
Perhaps the simple act of acknowledging and sharing this part of my experience is one way to make space and be still - the pause. To allow my heart to carry less, to be a little lighter.
If only for a few moments.
So that I can return to loving fully and feeling all the things.
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Completed September 6, 2021
About The Author:
Jara Dean-Coffey (jdc) is Founder and Director of the Equitable Evaluation Initiative and the Founder of Luminare Group. For the past twenty-five years, she has partnered with clients and colleagues to elevate their collective understanding of the relationship between values, context, strategy and evaluation and shifting our practices so that they are more fully in service of equity. For more about musings + machinations click here.
