HERMIT PLANNING
The ordinary magic of organizing a day
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I have been away from home for about a week out of a two week trip, socializing beyond my capacity, and filled with love beyond my wildest imagination.
I spend most of my time alone in the meadow with June, often going days without personal human contact. I like it this way and have come to prefer my own company.
This can lead me to overdoing it when I visit cities where my people live - generally Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City. The bustling energy, the lights, and the people who love me the biggest - how can I resist this level of beloved connection?
I spent the early part of this year just making sure I didn’t drink or die, so when I step into the spaciousness of having the energy to plan a day I consider it a great miracle and privilege. I love to dive in to the flow of a week of travel, but a few mornings of missing my morning pages and the ground beneath me can really fall out.
As autumn enters I have begun to plan in a new yet familiar way. The way of holding tightly to how I want to start the day. Opening the mail as an entry point for freedom. Setting up sublets, work trips, hosting artists in the guest loft, buying tickets to basketball games. Learning which parts of me need to recharge and which parts of me are ready to push forward.
How much time is enough time for my art? For my little walks? Will there ever be time to go on a date? Do I care about that when the freedom of self has settled in an unshakeable way? I continue to believe in my body I am loved and this creates a new hope of what love is and will always be.
I want to stay devoted to my vision of a day
To my vision of how I organize my research and book writing and art practice. May service and generosity and mutual aid and recreation fold in with little effort.
Planning as a spell, not as a chore. Facing the fears of a schedule with unending flexibility and abundant faith
In the hope portal there is infinite trust
ORGANIZING A DAY
LIVE ON ZOOM : SUNDAY October 9 : 10-12:30 PST / 1-3:30 EST
A two hour class on creative planning hour by hour, season by season, integrating tools and structures for pushing through avoidance and fear into service and spaciousness
Organizing A Day is a two hour class on zoom to invite in a sense of spacious planning through the lens of the 24 hour container. It is a class about unlocking your creative potential, finding ease in the day to day, and seeing the ordinary as magical and the magical as mundane
How to integrate :
💡 Morning rituals
📎 Tasks of avoidance
🚲 Hobbies
➡️ Work
🎨 Creative Practice
🍂 Seasons of a day, seasons of a month, seasons of a cycle, seasons of a year
Class is $43 and recorded and yours forever - the recording and the live class have closed captions - May the ordinary magic of organizing a day bring many blessings
Thing I liked reading this week
A portion of September’s paid subscriptions goes towards the KC Tenants Mutual Aid Fund
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