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10/28/2020 2 Comments Reading Leaves & Getting to the Next Moment: Appreciation and Preservation in 2020If you would like to listen along:My tea leaves are telling me: "Being present with what I have may conjure just enough gratitude to get me to the next moment". For longer than I would actually like to say, I’ve had my loose leaf teas wrapped up, tucked away, and remorsefully, out of reach. I would bring them out for the occasional steep--usually on one of my drink-more-tea-kicks-- or to have a teapot or two with company. I find it perplexing how “significance” and “insignificance” have strong proclivities to precipitate similar behaviors in us humans. Reverence, quite like irreverence, can to create d i s t a n c e , and d i s t a n c e can sometimes lead to neglect ;forgetting . My attempts to be reverential and prudent with the nouns of my life--beyond just my tea--has actually lead to dismission, and lack of appreciation, for not only these, but also parts of myself. And yet, 2020 has shed a new spectrum of light on these very internal & external dynamics of appreciation and importance.
getting close to what is close & taking life one moment at a time has been imperative for the majority of us.
This practice of reacquainting myself with the once revered and neglected leaves carves out a moment in my day where I'm reminded to get back in arms-length of who I am; intentionally unwrap myself and reflect on the precious-forgotten aspects of my life. It is a time where I can practice re-incorporating that tucked-away appreciation, even on the days when it feels hard; an opportunity to ponder how my behaviors reflect the reverence I have for the close & distant nouns of my life --beyond just my tea-- and make a micro-"special occasion" within the not-so-ordinary-everydays we've all been experiencing. These mindful attempts have helped me to get to the next moment with gratitude --as uncertain as that next moment may be. I truly hope you are thriving, friends. But if you are one of the many to just be surviving this year, I hope you have found, or will find, whatever it is that helps to get to the next moment, with whatever amount of gratitude that can be mustered; whatever it is that might assist you in getting closer to the precious-and-yet-circumstantially-distant parts of yourself and your life that this year may have created. May your literal or figurative tea leaves voice "Peace and Presence" to you & yours in this moment & the uncertain moments to come.
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Lesli M Butler
11/5/2020 01:45:14 pm
Thank you for sharing your voice. I so enjoyed hearing it!
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Amanda Thrasher
11/12/2020 07:35:37 am
Craftfully created and given voice. I'm thinking of reverence in a different way now. Thank you for sharing your inner reflections.
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