mindful monday.

I am shedding.

I think this is important.

It is likely a project with great implication for many parts of my life–not only the shedding that is taking place in my house, in which I am holding each object, feeling the impact of its story in my life (or not), making photos of them, and deciding whether to keep them or pass them on–but also in my physical self, my body, and most importantly, in my head.

Becoming Bendy, my wellness project, has taken a back seat to lavender cake, and I can feel it. There are likely many reasons for that. I'll no doubt be exploring them.

Making space, simplifying, clearing ground. In some cases, that might mean replacing: replacing a heavy dark bed with a light one (I am in deep, total love with this bed. The color resonates inside me, the white floor soothes me, the linens make me very happy), replacing a huge sofa with a smaller one. In other cases that means ridding, donating, giving. It might mean holding "yard gives" to pass things along to others. It means consolidating all my projects under one roof, one home on the web, one place to find me. I am feeling too dispersed; the things that keep me from my work have become my work, and I don't like that.

I'm asking people to help me. For example, I've hired a web designer to help make sense of my life online, I'm reading articles and clipping beautiful photos of spaces in which I would like to live, I'm trimming the shrubs, so to speak. I'm asking for help. I'm remembering a Buddhist Sangha sitting in my living room saying it would be difficult for her to die in this space because it is so full and not peaceful.

Not that I have any desire to die in my living room any time soon, mind you, but living here more peacefully and feeling more spaciousness in my life–that's what I'm urging toward.

So "mindful monday" will become a space on Mondays for me to share four simple things I am reading, learning, and loving.