I'm in Uzes. Finally. To stay. I'm still processing that. My being is still grounding into my body in this place, still catching up. Some of me had gone ahead, some of me has stayed behind and is lingering with the old place. It is a process for all of me to make it here and coalesce into who I am in this new place and create what my life will be here.
I am still me, of course. But, that we are different in different places is real. The place and the people affect us, and we change and grow because of them. This place will require new things of me. I will have to find parts of myself that were lost or that I didn't know existed. I have to get to know myself in a new way...allow myself to rise in a new way.
One of the things my mind wants to do is to compare how things are here with how things were in the old place. No. That is of no value. It doesn't matter how things were, it only matters how things are...here...now. Things won't be the same here. Everything will be different. Some things better, some things worse, but only if I get caught in the comparison of old and new. The comparison takes me out of being with what is. The comparison is a method of staying with the old. And, now, it's not about staying with the old, it's about opening to the new.
I am starting slowly, oozing into the energy of today. My mind runs through lists of what there is to do here and wants to move into the day. But, my body is tired from the travel of getting here and wants to sit and take it all in. So, I sit. I let my mind run in circles because there's no corralling it, but my body is quiet. It's an overcast, gray sky that greets me and covers my world. Birds fly across the frame of my window. A cat creeps across the roof across the street. I feel my butt on the seat cushion of my chair and my feet as they rest on the floor as my fingertips move across the familiar keys of my computer. It's quiet and I'm comfortable and I have all that I need in this moment.
My cat, Sophie, continues to wander the new space, discovering everything there is to know about the feels and smells and shapes of things. She's been more affectionate with me during this journey and we've grown closer. Our love and interdependence with each other has grown deeper. I am her only anchor in a changing world. Having her with me is a great gift. She is my heart, my companion, my friend, my child, my supporter. She uplifts me and grounds me into the present at the same time. I am grateful for her presence in ways that defy words and fill me to overflowing.
My heart is full in this moment and I'm grateful to everyone and everything that has conspired to get me and Sophie here. It took an enormous amount of Life force to magnetize everything into the reality of this moment. And, it is that enormity of Life force that renews me and keeps me moving. We don't accomplish things all at once, we accomplish them step by step, bit by bit...digestible bits...as my friend calls them. You don't eat the whole piece, you eat it in bits, digestible bit by digestible bit.
And so, I walk into my new life moment by moment, savoring each one, letting the moments wash over me as they string themselves together and open the path before me. Step by step, one foot in front of the other. Keep walking.
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