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0:01 Hello. I'm sitting here thinking about what's real for me right now. Which is the idea of this Museletter. And, honestly, the very realest thing is that I haven't made one of these in three months, which is wild.
0:27 And I have half an hour before my next thing and it feels like I could actually just sit down and say something.
0:38 But the other real thing is I don't have some huge insight in this moment necessarily to share. Although the other thing that is sort of annoying me is that I feel like I've had lots of really interesting insights.
0:54 That have been super helpful over the past three months. But just the pace of life picked up in such a way that I did not feel like I had the space to even sit down.
1:07 And do this, even though I designed it so that it would only take me 15 or 20 minutes to do, which it does.
1:18 And so, in this moment I guess I'm just thinking a lot about, I don't know, the cycles of life and how things completely out of our control often will take us from being busy to being, you know, to having space. Or in my case from feeling a little down to feeling, you know, really good.
1:48 From feeling like there wasn't a lot going on to feeling like there's too much going on. I often feel like I wish, you know, I think a lot of us feel like we could find the middle place between those, but somehow it feels like you're either in one or the other a lot of the time.
2:01 But, you know, we're also now in the fall, heading into the winter, not too far away.
2:16 It's really helped me over the years to learn to think about living life cyclically or, you know, remembering that as humans we used to be much more in touch with the seasons.
2:28 And thinking about them in sort of a metaphorical or a mythological way that we can use them as reminders to find the cycles in our own lives.
2:42 And so, you know, the fall, the time of harvest that's sort of the end of harvest, right, where we're sort of looking at what we've gathered, what we've created, what's come to fruition this year.
2:57 And starting to move into a discernment place, right, of starting to say, okay, like what, what worked really well, what did I want to do that I didn't, what did I try that did not turn out the way I wanted.
3:09 It is not something that I want to move forward with, you know, and so that is kind of where I am right now.
3:16 It's a part of the year that I actually really like because I've, over the past couple of years, learned to give myself a lot of space.
3:22 In this time of year and gratefully my family is not huge about all the winter holidays so I can create space around them.
3:32 But I'm really looking forward to going into kind of that hermit mode a little bit, the hermit card, right, were we're thinking about more of that introspection and reflection and I actually feel like I've activated a lot this year and a lot has happened and there's something really important.
3:49 About integrating that and taking the learnings and the gifts and letting go of what's not useful and especially feeling like I can go into the new year with kind of clarity, right, around where I want to put my energy, what I want to invest in, what I maybe want to try out that's new.
4:11 What I want to keep doing, things like that. So yeah, I also just, miss hearing from everybody out there who subscribes to this, new and old alike.
4:22 And so yeah, I'd really love to hear from you. What are you reflecting on? Like what are you noticing from this year that really worked and what are you wanting to let go of?
4:36 What are the lessons that you've learned or that you're taking away and if those aren't clear to you now, I encourage you to find some space to get clear. And when you are, I really would love to hear from you. I think it’s really important to be in community around this kind of stuff. So yeah, thanks for listening.
For Everything There Is a Season