Personal Log #4
The power of routine and surrender - the slow dance that holds my life together
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Autumn has come all at once here in the little terrace that I live in. It’s as if stagehands came in the night with their paint and their special effects and prepped it all, ready for us to wake into as September began. Mist enveloped the chimneys as the curtains opened. The gutters waited, already half-full of orange leaves; the old town lime trees sporting new yellow patches, just a dab here and there. Each fence and brick-walled garden had been painted down a tone or two with a less saturated palette. The sky is a different kind of grey. A different kind of rain falls and there, ah, a perfect beat: the call of the geese in a great triangular skein, flying low over the rooftops, precisely as scheduled.
Still, I got up and began my careful, habitual routine. I made time for the same things I always want to make time for. This is my contract: that I will show up for my life and the things that matter to me, whatever the season, whatever the weather. Perhaps, as the days get shorter, I will move things around a little. Perhaps, as the air gets colder, I will do a little less, but my benchmark is consistency. I have learnt this is what my life and my spirit need most.
This is what I wanted to talk about today: about how I choose to spend my days. I worry you will think me very boring, but there we go.
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