Just found this in my Notes app...a blog post I wrote but never published from last year. As I read it today, three days after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in (Kamala Harris!), the weather, while cold outside is beautiful in my heart.
I was listening to a podcast recently and the hosts quoted Pema Chödrön an American Tibetan Buddhist. As I tend to do, I derived my own meaning and simplified it for for my everyday walking around the world self.
“Be the sky, not the weather.”
Again…
“Be the sky, not the weather.”
That’s a tall order but a very important one these days. There have been times when “weather” controlled much of my life. For the last several years, though, I have tried, without having a word for it, to be one with the sky. Like most things, some days are easier than others but part of my process, if you will, is appreciating the energy joy brings, welcoming the power of love and remaining in awe of the magic a simple kind word and a smile can do.
Be the sky, not the weather.
