Tapestry of March: 7 moments of wisdom, wonder, and growth

LOVE LIGHTS LIST from March 2025

The fresh blank page that whispers anything is possible.

The crack of the spine. The selection of a pen.

The ink sometimes isn’t dry before my left-hand glides across it, smudging the letters as if uniquely marking my own work.

Whilst reflecting on my March notes, the joy left me wanting to share some of the special things that have come my way or returned to me. And so, from my little space in front of this writing desk, beside the window that overlooks peaceful mountains and a line of highway off in the distance, I share some treasures with you:

1. If you received $10 million dollars, would you take it? -Yes

   If taking the $10 million meant you wouldn’t wake up tomorrow, would you take it? - No. Wake up tomorrow knowing you have something worth more than $10 million, as is today to your yesterday.

2. When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams. I haven’t read this book yet, but I ordered it because how can you not be moved to read that it was written by a daughter whose mother left her shelves of journals, only for the daughter to find them all empty. Journal after journal, shelf after shelf, blank pages. How utterly moving.

3. This paragraph from Pamela Anderson’s article Harvest:

   ‘The harvest is not just about the rewards. It’s about reflection—standing in the field of everything I’ve planted, nurtured, and fought to protect… Some things have flourished beyond my wildest dreams, while others never took root… Some seeds I planted in faith, unsure if they would ever grow… And yet, here I am, surrounded by both abundance and loss, beauty and lessons, joy and longing…...’

4. How did Nirvana make weirdness so accessible but also stay weird, is the second article from Joseph Gordon-Levitt. An interesting article diving into the Nivarna culture that touches on something in all of us.

5. I often come back to Liz Gilbert’s free 10-step Writing Academy.

   In summary, it is:

   1) Tell your story TO someone, NOT a demographic.
   2) Start at the beginning of the story, write what happened, and keep going.
   3) Use radically simple sentences.
   4) Don't worry if it's good; just finish it.
   5) Don't write with the aim of changing anybody's life, just write what delights or enrages or fascinates you.
   6) Whenever you can, tell stories instead of explaining stuff.
   7) Your work doesn’t have to be any particular length, or written for any particular market or even published. For today, just write.
   8 ) Remember that you’ve been doing research your whole life, merely by existing. You are the only expert in your own experience.
   9) What separates working writers from non-working writers is that working writers return to their task. What gets you there is not pride but mercy.
   10) Be willing to let it be easy. You might be surprised.

6. If you want to be hit with the fact that we are only here once, this clip captures just that. I have had it saved for years, and it always moves me to tears, wonder and joy at this life: The Thousand Year Journey: Oregon To Patagonia.

7. “Today I understand vocation quite differently — not as a goal to be achieved but as a gift to be received. Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice “out there” calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice “in here” calling me to be the person I was born to be.” PARKER PALMER

A giving of oneself to the magnificently mundane,

how there’s more to it being all the same,

for its difference is poetically revealed; when I am with it, I am healed.

Thanks for joining me here today,

Ta.

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