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This is it, folks. The present moment. Here we are, you and me. Sitting at our computers. Watching the facebook feed and following links. Are you procrastinating? What are you looking for? Do you have an insatiable voyeuristic curiosity? Are you a stalker? Are you addicted? Its okay, we can talk about it. I'm addicted to Facebook so I understand. Maybe you're reading this while resisting the urge to walk to the fridge and eat everything in sight, in a fit of PMS-induced hormonal cravings (I never do that!) Maybe you're drunk (or trying to get drunk.) Maybe you're clean and sober and this post is triggering. (Call your sponsor!)
Are you at your office? Do you have a cubical? Are you sitting next to another laptopper in the coffee shop while they blow their nose and spill coffee? Are you reading this at a stoplight (danger!) Are you at the airport or an internet cafe in a remote tropical location? Are you home? Are you naked? I know I would be if this leather couch wasn't so damn cold and covered with germs. Eww.
Wherever you are and whatever you're doing is what life is all about.
I mean it. This moment.
Not later or tomorrow or someday, when you're thinner, prettier, stronger, richer, more fit, more likable, less awkward, more educated. Not when you have more skills, a better job, nicer house, fancier car, prettier wife, more video games. Right now.
If you're anything like me, you probably spend a lot of time future-tripping. I'll do just about anything to ignore or resist the present moment. I want to skip levels, like a cheating video-gammer. Up level, up level, up level! Don't stop, get it get it! I imagine Daisy's Happy Life- the neighborhood I want to live in, the type of house I desire. The books I want to write and what I'll say in my TED talk. The perfect healthy body, wardrobe, vacations, creative collaborators, lovers, and the never-ending slough of song ideas, album concepts, and band names.
Oh boy, when I have all that stuff together, then I'll really be happy!
But I'm learning that the only thing that matters is to be here now.
I think most of us know this and yet I constantly forget.
And so I remind myself every day:
I wake up early
I refuse to look at my phone/facebook in bed (Revolution!)
I breathe, stretch, move.
I eat well.
I write.
I show up for work positive, curious, and ready.
I "clean the house"- room by room, mindfully attending to the details
I deal with the shit. There is a lot of it. Life is messy. I clean and suddenly a new layer of dust forms.
I accept that nothing is every truly clean and perfection is unhealthy. Mistakes are blessings. The present moment is the best teacher.
I do everything I can, the best I can.
Then I stretch, read, go to bed, and wake up ready to do it all over again. Joyfully.
I choose this life.
I choose the silence.
I choose to ache, shake, move, and feel everything I can. It's just growing pains.
I choose to be a rock star right now.
I believe you are exceptional and powerful.
I believe in your light - spark- curiosity - wildness - passion.
Feel it. Roll around. Trust.
Bring your light into the everyday, the mundane, routine. I watch everything change when I choose to love now.
I believe we can take the "shit" from life and put it in the compost. It makes great fertilizer.
What can we grow with what we've been given?
Do.
Be.
Love.
The light in me recognizes, honors, and respects the light in you.
~ NamasDaisy
p.s. my friend Shawnee Kilgore sneakily snapped the above picture of me and Jon Dee Graham after Gospel Brunch at Strangebrew. I'm thankful for moments of presence with inspiring Austin musicians. This community is a blessing. <3
This is it, folks. The present moment. Here we are, you and me. Sitting at our computers. Watching the facebook feed and following links. Are you procrastinating? What are you looking for? Do you have an insatiable voyeuristic curiosity? Are you a stalker? Are you addicted? Its okay, we can talk about it. I'm addicted to Facebook so I understand. Maybe you're reading this while resisting the urge to walk to the fridge and eat everything in sight, in a fit of PMS-induced hormonal cravings (I never do that!) Maybe you're drunk (or trying to get drunk.) Maybe you're clean and sober and this post is triggering. (Call your sponsor!)
Are you at your office? Do you have a cubical? Are you sitting next to another laptopper in the coffee shop while they blow their nose and spill coffee? Are you reading this at a stoplight (danger!) Are you at the airport or an internet cafe in a remote tropical location? Are you home? Are you naked? I know I would be if this leather couch wasn't so damn cold and covered with germs. Eww.
Wherever you are and whatever you're doing is what life is all about.
I mean it. This moment.
Not later or tomorrow or someday, when you're thinner, prettier, stronger, richer, more fit, more likable, less awkward, more educated. Not when you have more skills, a better job, nicer house, fancier car, prettier wife, more video games. Right now.
If you're anything like me, you probably spend a lot of time future-tripping. I'll do just about anything to ignore or resist the present moment. I want to skip levels, like a cheating video-gammer. Up level, up level, up level! Don't stop, get it get it! I imagine Daisy's Happy Life- the neighborhood I want to live in, the type of house I desire. The books I want to write and what I'll say in my TED talk. The perfect healthy body, wardrobe, vacations, creative collaborators, lovers, and the never-ending slough of song ideas, album concepts, and band names.
Oh boy, when I have all that stuff together, then I'll really be happy!
But I'm learning that the only thing that matters is to be here now.
I think most of us know this and yet I constantly forget.
And so I remind myself every day:
I wake up early
I refuse to look at my phone/facebook in bed (Revolution!)
I breathe, stretch, move.
I eat well.
I write.
I show up for work positive, curious, and ready.
I "clean the house"- room by room, mindfully attending to the details
I deal with the shit. There is a lot of it. Life is messy. I clean and suddenly a new layer of dust forms.
I accept that nothing is every truly clean and perfection is unhealthy. Mistakes are blessings. The present moment is the best teacher.
I do everything I can, the best I can.
Then I stretch, read, go to bed, and wake up ready to do it all over again. Joyfully.
I choose this life.
I choose the silence.
I choose to ache, shake, move, and feel everything I can. It's just growing pains.
I choose to be a rock star right now.
I believe you are exceptional and powerful.
I believe in your light - spark- curiosity - wildness - passion.
Feel it. Roll around. Trust.
Bring your light into the everyday, the mundane, routine. I watch everything change when I choose to love now.
I believe we can take the "shit" from life and put it in the compost. It makes great fertilizer.
What can we grow with what we've been given?
Do.
Be.
Love.
The light in me recognizes, honors, and respects the light in you.
~ NamasDaisy
p.s. my friend Shawnee Kilgore sneakily snapped the above picture of me and Jon Dee Graham after Gospel Brunch at Strangebrew. I'm thankful for moments of presence with inspiring Austin musicians. This community is a blessing. <3