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Chris’s Corner
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As I begin writing this, the snow is lightly falling outside my window, quietly turning the lawns from green to white. During the past nine months of the pandemic, I find that the days, weeks, and months flow into one another in a way they haven’t before. Sometimes, seeing the shifts in the weather and nature are the only things that indicate to me that time is passing. In less than two weeks it will be Christmas and that feels quite surreal. I’ve put up the tree, am making the cookies, planning a very small gathering for Christmas dinner, and yet, I'm still having difficulty grasping that it’s December and that the holiday is happening.
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I've heard the same thing from others so I decided that talking about the 2020 Christmas/holiday season would be a good topic for this months’ newsletter article. In writing it, I was able to change my own mindset, always a good indicator that we choose what we need to learn!
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All the best of the season to you and yours as you creatively navigate the holidays this year!
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Practice Beginner's Mind this Season?
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2020 has been a year filled with uncertainty and the need to constantly adjust how we live our daily lives…so many questions - how long is lock down going to last, will my work continue, how do I work from home with the kids at home from school, can I shift the work I do to an on-line platform, how …
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Quote of the month
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“For they are the moments, when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”
―Rainer Maria Rilke
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Thanks for reading. See you soon!
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