Two or three times I year I get an impulse that I just have to change my writing cottage around.
With six windows in a 10 x 12 room it can be a bit challenging – and it can only be arranged in so many different ways.
But when the impulse hits, I try to honor it. Like it did this morning as I ate my breakfast.
I had something else totally planned for the day. But knew I best honor this feeling that I needed to freshen up my creative space…or it would continue to hang around in my mind until I did. Now that can get messy! Ha!
It’s a whirlwind trying to move around all the furniture I have in such a compact space, but I love how the new energy feels once I’m done.
Now I sit here relishing in the new flow and have no doubt new creativity will follow soon, too.
For three years I felt in transition. While at the same time, I saw myself getting to where I am now — though I wasn’t quite sure how “getting here” was going to happen.
I’ve got so many wonderful opportunities happening right now. It makes the time of transition now feel like it went fast, though when I was in it, it was difficult at times to trust the process– and how I fought to not just push it along so I could move past feeling uncomfortable.
My faith was being called upon often during those many months of feeling I’d lost my way– but really, what I learned and had to practice (and still am practicing!) was allowing my path to unfold organically. I had to learn to let go of control.
Much of this I’ve been writing about in my new book called, “Wisdom Found in the Pause.” The process of writing this book has been a practice in itself also of allowing and not forcing it out into the world until it feels ready– but I feel closer to that point now than ever before.
I’ve come to realize that I had to experience what I call the “full circle” of transition. There were many layers I had to work through – some took longer than others — and there are many layers of which I still must work through. And as author Joan Anderson says, we are “unfinished” women. I love that because it means we just have that much more to explore and learn about ourselves– and it’s what life is all about.
Of late, I’ve had this burst of feeling on purpose and in align with right where I should be–something that eluded me since Frankie passed away in 2012.
Though I admit, I find myself worrying about the one thing I want to let go of– and that is balance. Not that I don’t want balance in my life, because I do — but trying not to control it — but to let my life bring me the special opportunities that feed my soul and know this is right where I’m supposed to be– and trust the rest always works out.
As I contemplated so many of these thoughts this morning, brushing my teeth, something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye.
It was dear, sweet, Gidget peeking around the corner from the bedroom looking at me as I was deep in thought.
A burst of pure love washed over my heart and brought me right back to center. I sensed she was reminding me to ride the waves of these wonderful new feelings and opportunities coming my way, while at the same time, she was here to remind me that I could slow down when I need — and everything will still work out.
I was grateful for that connection in that moment of what is the ebb and flow of life. And how grateful I am to be in this time right now of bursting through yet another layer of who I am and where I want to go.
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We celebrated 60 days Monday, the 15th of Miss Gidget having no seizures! Woo hoo!
It’s true! Abbey is the 54th dog the Frankie Wheelchair Fund had the honor to grant a wheelchair to recently. This is the note I received from Hearts4Doxies who Abbey found her way to for a better life:
Barbara Techel, you are Abbey’s guardian angel and we love you.
Before being rescued, our little girl was forced to live outside for years due to her incontinence, never having an opportunity to leave her homemade cart that was far too small, damaging to her spine, and causing her constant pain and emotional distress.
I don’t know as I’m her guardian angel, but I feel blessed to be part of Abbey’s joyful new journey. So many have helped me and continue to help me with donations which makes this all possible. So many guardian angels out there!
And this note from Abbey’s foster mom, Kristen:
We, as her foster family, are forever grateful to Barbara Techel . Abbey is living the dream and chasing the birds in her awesome new set of wheels. Thank you Hearts4Doxies and Barbara for giving Abbey a new chance in life. If she could talk she would say, ” Thank you!”.
I’d say the look on her face says it all and yes, thank you, it is! So so thrilled to help you dear, Abbey. Keep on rolling!
To donate, apply or learn more about the Frankie Wheelchair Fund please visit the website National Walk ‘N Roll Dog Day.
