I love this piece! Thank you so much for sharing this process. It's incredibly meaningful to me and I love that parable or story which I often forget about but truly do know, that nothing is good or bad or what seems so potentially isn't. Happy to be on this wild ride with you and I also will add I love your writing style as well.
Thank you for this piece. Four things came to mind while reading it.
1) The opposite of control, they tell me in the spiritual fraternity to which I belong, is «allowing. » It’s astonishing what materializes when I allow fate to unspool.
2) So this story reminds me of that concept of «the seemingly bad, turning out for the best.» What might seem as bad luck on the surface, may just turn out to be a gift wrapped in shit… or as my spiritual guru would say: gifts in the gutter.
3) Things are neither good nor bad: they just are. It’s thinking of them either way that makes them so.
4) Everything happens by divine appointment. No need to force it. If it’s meant to be, it’s not all up to me.
So you don’t go to Mongolia next fall as planned ? Hey, take it from someone who’s been : African safari ain’t bad. Neither is Iceland. I tasted shark meat there for the first time. And the people’s hospitality is second to none.
Anyway, your writing style is beautiful. I look forward to the day you’d publish these pieces in a collection of essays.
Hey Jamie, I was just checking out the Golden Eagle Festival Ride on YouTube and had a goosebumps moment at 1:38! Oh my goodness! https://youtu.be/W6nl8xm1a-k?si=U7GhttLXCYyBoE4P&t=98
A kindred spirit 🥰 Thank you for sharing this, Rowena!
I love this piece! Thank you so much for sharing this process. It's incredibly meaningful to me and I love that parable or story which I often forget about but truly do know, that nothing is good or bad or what seems so potentially isn't. Happy to be on this wild ride with you and I also will add I love your writing style as well.
Thank you for this piece. Four things came to mind while reading it.
1) The opposite of control, they tell me in the spiritual fraternity to which I belong, is «allowing. » It’s astonishing what materializes when I allow fate to unspool.
2) So this story reminds me of that concept of «the seemingly bad, turning out for the best.» What might seem as bad luck on the surface, may just turn out to be a gift wrapped in shit… or as my spiritual guru would say: gifts in the gutter.
3) Things are neither good nor bad: they just are. It’s thinking of them either way that makes them so.
4) Everything happens by divine appointment. No need to force it. If it’s meant to be, it’s not all up to me.
So you don’t go to Mongolia next fall as planned ? Hey, take it from someone who’s been : African safari ain’t bad. Neither is Iceland. I tasted shark meat there for the first time. And the people’s hospitality is second to none.
Anyway, your writing style is beautiful. I look forward to the day you’d publish these pieces in a collection of essays.