Setting Down the Mountains of Expectations

A poem for your Wednesday

Hello, fellow traveler,

Let’s start with a breath, shall we?

I am happy to say that today is day 88 of my daily writing/sharing practice and I want to take a moment to share what this has been for me.

First, what freedom it has been to write/share no matter what! To let go of “good,” and simply write something that feels true in the moment, to not make each piece of writing precious, but to simply write the next true thing. And the next true thing…

It has also grown my trust. Even when I am sure “today” will be the day that nothing comes, even when I meet the blank page with a whole lot of exhausting thrashing, something always comes.

Each day of this writing practice has helped me get clearer about my intentions…to write not to seek approval, not to be “good,” but because this writing is a sacred, holy, freeing, deeply connecting, beautiful thing. Writing keeps me sane in the midst of the current insanity. Why would I ever keep that from myself?

I am learning that “good” has nothing over FREE.

Below is the poem I wrote today.

If you would like to join me in this daily writing practice, if you would like to practice setting down those mountains of expectations, see below for more details.

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Jotting from my journal. Day #88 of (mostly unedited) daily writing/sharing

Like the Wind

I have felt what it is to set down 
the mountains of expectation, 
to toss out every fake 
and plastic thing—

to tenderly rescue the fly 
thrashing against the window, to release
it into the wind, simply because 
I want to save something.

I am beginning to feel what it is 
to come out of hiding, 
to know that the lost is most certainly 
part of the found.

Oh, fellow traveler, please—stop 
the thrashing, come out of hiding, come close 
so that we can't help but love 
the false away—

can't help but be more like 
the wind—
wild, almighty, real—
	
     free.

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