Practicing Together #12

Rituals!  On Mondays, we practice together.  You are invited to join us in your head, or on your blog, or here in comments.

This past week, I noticed that my love of cooking is resurfacing.  When I started a new job in February, for a while, every single thing that involved steps felt overwhelming.  But I’ve come home from work and cooked dinner a couple of times in the last few weeks, and it’s perfect: I feel nurtured and accomplished all at the same time, and I have delicious lunches.

This coming week, I invite in savoring.  The weather’s crazed swoops and dips are starting to include expeditions in the direction of perfect spring days, I am finding little pockets of quiet, and also, it is warm enough for ice cream sometimes.  I want to relish these things at least as much as I tend to focus on the challenging or stressful things in my life.

Ways this could work: It could just work.  I could try taking a breath with lovely things when I think of it.  I could keep a list.

Updates from last week: Last week, I invited in the question “why?” and had some interesting conversations about it in various contexts.  I also found that staying connected to “why?” helped me retain perspective on things that could have felt stressful.  When I was a kid, my dad told me about how he realized the difference between urgent and important, and this week reminded me of that.

For all of you, I’m wishing for a wonderful week filled with all kinds of sunshine and savoring.