Anyone else ready for routine again?
Hi all. Just wanted to send a note to say I’m still alive, and hope to get back into my writing groove soon. I’m increasingly recognizing what a contemplative I am, and how much I need quiet space to connect with all that makes my soul sing. When I have it (the space), my time with busyness and people is an extension and expansion of that song. When I don’t, I feel increasingly out of touch with everything, disconnected from myself and other people and all that’s going on in the noises and silences happening around us – even when I’m smack in the middle of them all! I go numb. Can anyone relate with this? Holidays can really be intense.
I’m so grateful for the good things with which my recent weeks have been filled (travel, time with friends and family, leisurely hours with my husband), but am sensing in my soul a real need to renew. To be quiet. To return to the daily rhythms that help me hear Life’s song again. When I do so, I hope my writing voice will wake up and have again a thing or two to say.
Until then, and fondly,
Kristin
January 1st, 2005 at 10:41 pm
Well, I hope you’ll be back to writing soon. I relate completely to that need for contemplative space. It’s hard sometimes to be understanding of one’s own requirements during the holidays: it’s so easy to be trapped by the expectation of sharing oneself and one’s time with family and friends. I think we both recognize, though, that allowing time for one’s own renewal is of the utmost importance if one wants to truly connect with anyone else. Still, it’s hard. I do hope you’ve been able to create some space for yourself . . . and I hope you had a wonderful New Year’s. And I hope the ‘then’ you signed off withh comes sooner rather than later.