hi loves. once again i want to focus on the month of november to practice gratitude. of course, to live a truly joyful life, we practice gratitude as we move through each day of our year, but i like to use the month of giving thanks to really drive it home.
in the days post-creative joy retreat, i am walking through my life in a love and beauty rainbow haze, with awareness that i became a kinder more beautiful version of myself, taking space and time to re-enter the sometimes-harsh real world. i am lucky to have big spaces of silence and stillness in my life (part luck, part design, part sacrifice). i have room to stop and remember a bit from the monastery and integrate it into my real life and actually see it working.
i struggle with this luck, this privilege. this always comes up for me at retreat and other moments when my life reflects back to me in glittery and complete opposition to the lives of many of the women and children with whom i have worked. the brightness of privilege is shadowed always by a profound sense of injustice. and then guilt.
we talked about this at retreat and our lovely leader jen louden wrote about it here.
so this year my november gratitude practice will include additional practice in noticing the privilege guilt when it arises and moving into moments of service and connection with the spirit of love rather than obligation-slash-penance.
i hope you will do some sort of gratitude practice too, either on your blog, instagram, facebook or in a more private way. if you are, please share so i can follow along.
