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{Omens}
Twice.
Within hours.
I received a compliment.
On my work1.
On my presence.
On the humanity of it.
Sacred without sanctimony.
There is something in there.
That is so deeply fundamental to my being.
To what I do.
And what I want to bring forward.
It arriving today felt like magic.
{alive}
My last call ended.
I returned to the paper quilling I have grown so fond of2.
The sky was already darker than I suspected it should be.
Minutes later the sound.
Of rain on trees.
On the roof.
Grew.
Louder and louder.
For weeks.
I have been having this ache.
For the sensation of rain on my skin.
On my neck.
Falling into the soft hollow.
Ecstatic and alive.
I pushed the thought away.
I was working.
I was doing.
But I could feel my skin.
Wanting in a way I could not ignore.
I set down my phone.
Took off my glasses.
And stood on the porch3.
Arms open.
Head back.
Letting myself receive.
Letting myself be met.
In the ways that I desire.
I don’t know what happened.
But for the moments I stood there.
Torrents of rain meeting my body4.
I felt a deep sense of me.
In it All.
A sense of satisfaction.
Sitting with the longing.
And desire.
Of aliveness.
The call is as it is.
And I don’t know why.
I can’t see the big picture.
I don’t know if there is one.
I only know that I am better.
More.
When I answer it.
When I say yes.
I know that I each time I say yes.
I feel the biggestness of my being.
Unfurling with me.
Dancing through me.
Each time I say yes.
I can see more.
Feel more.
Be more.
Of who I am.
And so.
I will keep saying yes.
I will keep listening.
I will keep letting myself be guided.
Because it feels so much better.
Than anything else.
Wholly yours~
Jo Anna
Yes!!!! So much yes here! The paper quilling, the rain and all the spoken (and unspoken) compliments to your work ♥️♥️♥️
I want to memorize this one in particular because you were able to articulate what I would like to say about the feeling when I say yes and the openings that are happening right now when I let your words in🙏In the greatest appreciation and gratefulness