Community

Thinking outside the box regarding Community...and Relationship as Tom and I navigate the Relationship River together. And I look where Community already exists in my life!

And Source...so funny...whispers to me...read the book off your bookshelf The Community of Kindness from beginning to end. Read a story each day.

And so I started a few weeks ago. The book is a collection of one page stories about community. All Good! To remind that I choose to look with my 'abundance' glasses on. Or my 'scarcity' glasses on. Not just with community...with all things!

The voices inside me are so creative and imaginative...in taking me into 'stories' which either build myself up and infuse joy. Or take me down and keep me from being with feelings I do not want to be with. All Good...to notice. To practice. To make different choices. To have patience with my self. All Good!

Community is all around me. Waiting for me...yes, me to reach out to it. I smile. And am grateful. As I think of many friends near and far. My group of five, including me who gather to eat, drink, laugh every so often. My spontaneous friend two blocks away who might be available for a mindless game of cards to get me out of listening to those creative storytellers inside me :-). The Dancing with Source village--still with me in spirit. The ORSC community--also with me in spirit. Gaia, Mother Earth, Father Sky...ever with me as I take daily walks outside and marvel at Their awesome beauty around me!

I am grateful for the support that crosses my path precisely when I need it..as I continue to clear out things in my home (the local community college continuing education is offering a six week class on hoarding in April). As I navigate the Relationship River with Tom (Gottman Institute's blog and all of John Gottman's books are great reminders of how I want to be in any relationship). As I move through feelings and emotions triggered along the way (Sobonfu's grief ritual from her native Dagara Tribe of the country Burkina Faso, Africa, came in Divine time to help me release feelings stored in my field). And now taking a Managing Anger 8 week series through Kaiser Permanente to help me understand what brings me to anger. So I can learn to de-escalate.

All Good! All the while, remembering to HAVE FUN!

HAVE FUN!