Another day, another week in the books. And what a week it was. Sometimes too many things happen to keep track of. This feels like one of those weeks.
We are counting down to the last few days of 2011. I kind of feel like an athletic coach whose team is in a rebuilding year: you lose a lot of games, determine where the gaps are on your team so you can develop strategies to fill them, and you work with the players you have, improving their conditioning, basic skills and techniques. At the moment, I most directly relate to the lose a lot of games part. Yep, 2011 has definitely been a rebuilding year. It has been a year of significant endings and small beginnings.
I am grateful that as 2011 draws to a close I am still standing in a relatively good space all things considered. I have not ended the year with this much uncertainty and challenge in a really long time. It does make me wonder what 2012 might have in store. My hope is that I am developing the tools that will allow me to handle whatever happens with grace and equanimity. In the meantime, I want to engage mindfully with each day as it unfolds. And if the unfolding includes more rides on the mechanical bull, then so be it. If it involves moments of blessed stillness and quiet, so be it. Whatever situation I find myself in, may I approach it with openness, courage, compassion, and love. May it be so.
© M. T. Chamblee, 2011.
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