I would like to welcome you all to the monthly check in with our words! And I am hoping that you all had the best month with your word! At the end of this post you will find the link up to share your post!
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
This quote very much sums up my month with Yutori. It has been a month of changes… and so many questions. From simple questions like: Why can’t I keep my desk clean? to more difficult questions like: Why am I experiencing health issues?
Most definitely “my plans” for the month were tossed out the window early and “life’s plans” took over and dragged me along for the ride (and yes, sometimes that included me kicking and screaming!)
It has been a month where each step finds a new hurdle… and I am not a very good “jumper” of hurdles. I am more the go around the hurdle in the avoidance method but these are ones that cannot be ignored. Sigh.
Somewhere last week, I lost entirely all my “making mojo” and as such I am severely behind on my days of stitching and the 100 Day Stitch Book. I have not picked up my knitting in the same amount of time… I just don’t have the brain-bandwidth right now to focus. So I pulled out an old project… the mitered square ‘blanket’ and surprisingly… and it felt exactly right for me in this moment. The simple knitting of a small square block, building on the blocks before it is reminding me that this knitting… like life… progresses in much the same way… one bit built on all the other bits. The perfect reminder of how my new hurdles need to be addressed… one bit at a time.
One block after another… comfort knitting, FTW!
In the chaos of this month, I also revisited my dear friend, Rilke. I needed his assurance to “live the onslaught of questions” and in reading Rilke, I found some new tidbits that have been easing my days:
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
and
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
And so I am reminded that navigating hurdles, exasperation at messy desks, and the loss of making mojo are the stuff of life. And that stuff of life … and the things to come… are already taking up their spaces, both physical and mental and what I need to do is simply believe in the process. And perhaps allow myself more space to sit quietly and just be with myself.
If you wrote a post about how your word showed up for you this month, please leave your link below. It will be open until next Sunday, April 6 to accommodate you for whenever you want to post about your word!
I’m sorry that life has thrown up so many hurdles for you this month. It’s something that happens to all of us, no matter how hard we try to avoid them, and sometimes we just have to address them head on. You’ve discovered one of the things that I love about knitting — that it can be good for any circumstance. There are times when we want something complicated and involving, but there also are times when we just need to meditative action of knitting without having to think too hard.
Your opening quote reminds me of one of my mantras: “Change always leads to something positive.” I hope April ushers in glimpses of that, for you. Sounds like you have the wisdom and tools you need to nurture the mindset.
I could FEEL the comfort in your knitting here, and I’m glad you picked it up and found refuge in it. As for the desk, I’ve come to a conclusion. I need clean kitchen countertops and an uncluttered house, in general. As for my desk, which is actually a big old library table, it’s sort of like my compost pile. Good stuff comes out of it, so I’ve stopped ‘managing’ it and let it be what it is. Rich fodder!
Sorry to hear of the hurdles you’ve been dealing with Kat. I hope they end soon!! And, maybe open the door to other things. I like Carolyn’s idea of a desk top being like a compost pile. LOL. I hope your blanket knitting can be soothing and that your urge to “make” returns soon. Take care!
I don’t like hearing that you’re struggling and I hope that sharing that with us will help you find an easier way through it. The health stuff can be particularly draining, give yourself some grace there, mmmkay? XOXO
The older I get the less resilient I am with life and it’s events, I’m working on it and I am trying to be better. My dry eye and dry mouth and some other things just get too much sometimes. I like reading and escaping that way. May you be well and may the chaos settle down and may you have peace.
So sorry to read about your struggles this month and thank you for your honest reflections. You are enough. I have fallen into bad habits and am trying to address them now. Change is afoot. Good luck and keep putting one foot in front of the other and you will get there.
I’m glad that knitting was there for you. This is why we must always have many WIPs.
CA is right….we always need something to fall back on – what’s the betting each of those mitred squares has a tale to tell. Just go with the flow and as an abbreviated version of one of your quotes says…..Let life happen
Cycles. Life just moves in cycles. And our passions and projects cycle, too. Sometimes it’s stitching; sometimes it’s painting; sometimes it’s the soothing rhythm of mitred-squared. You’re in exactly the right space for where you need to be now. XO
I so agree with Kym. Life does move in cycles and I am learning much to my dismay, the cycles include some rollercoaster ups and downs. Taking one little bit at a time is a good way to tackle things without feeling overwhelmed. The blanket looks like great comfort knitting and a perfect example of one stitch, one square at a time. The hand stitching will be there and you can finish it in your own good time. I’m keeping you in my thoughts and prayers right now.