I was 65 at the beginning of the pandemic. It turns out that was an inflection point in my life, but not the one I expected. In the beginning of 2020, February to be exact, I bought tickets to Oprah’s Vision Tour 2020 in NYC for my sister, my niece and me.
(Click play to listen to the full post here!) This old expression runs through my head a lot. I’m learning this is the way inspiration works for me. I “receive” words, phrases, familiar expressions, or as in the name Graceing...
My first “real” job in my life was retail. I worked for Lord & Taylor in the late 70’s in New York. In fact, that is how I landed in Washington, DC in 1979, transferred to ‘the branches’ from the flagship NY store. That was a necessary step for all “executive trainees”. The idea was, you would serve time in the suburbs and return to NY as an assistant buyer who now understood the critical remote tentacles of the business.
I plan a word of the year every year. I choose a word or a theme that accurately defines my intention and hope for the coming year. I choose it by “feel”. It comes to me through my journaling, meditation, and spiritual contemplation. This year my word is “integrate” and my goal is to live a ‘well-integrated’ life every day.
This week was Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights and the beginning of a new year. I learned about this yesterday. We had a ceremony with a candle and some money. We were taught at the end to give the money away following the ceremony. The message was money and abundance will multiply and letting go is a catalyst for multiplication. Money is currency, it’s energy, it is meant to be circulated, it is not to be held, it is to be spent. Like the current in a river, it flows, energy circulates, it comes back, it continues to generate more energy and it is important to unblock it and keep it moving. It comes back to fuel our lives.
I have never played a game of Whack-A-Mole. I’m not sure I have even seen one on TV or the movies, but somehow Bill Murray and “Caddyshack” come to mind when I think of the game. I don’t know why, without experience, the game of Whack-A-Mole...