When I think about how long it has been since I sat down to write..

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I feel a little sad. Life has been busy - good busy. With the sun starting to shine longer, my thoughts drift to how can I better support myself this year as I go through the different seasons. Not only the seasons of the year, but the seasons of life.

I usually have some great epiphany that marks the end of one season before I start the next. The moment where you can see everything so clearly. Everything that brought you to this moment all makes sense. This feeling doesn't last long. It fades into your day to day that you almost think you imagined it.

Doesn't it feel amazing when you are aligned in life? Do we know we are experiencing it before the feeling fades? How do we become more in tune with the flow of life? How do we capture more time while we can?

I see the value in writing down my thoughts, ideas and questions even more so. On the other side of not sitting down to write for.. a long while.. my memories of that time are all stuck together, hard to see clearly, even harder to remember how I was feeling.

Writing isn't the only way to pause, check-in, release what you are holding on to. Is there something that you enjoy doing that brings you to the present moment? Do more of that this year.

As you can see, I understand how writing impacts my life but I still floated through my days without sitting down to write. Why is that? For me, it is a bit of avoidance AND simply not weaved into my day.

I realized that I wasn't putting any thought into how can I remember to sit down and write. It's not simply because I don't want to.. I haven't found what works for me to simply enjoy the process of writing without any thought on the outcome.

Now, all of this is to say that I am a bit proud of myself for allowing myself grace in this thinking. Understand that there are seasons of life & the more flexible we are with our plans.. the easier it will be to flow with the times that you may not be checking everything off your list. Maybe your list has changed? Maybe something happened that created priorities around different things.

What I don't want to forget through every single season are my roots. What grounds me? What helps me understand the present moment better? How can I support myself through this season of life?

I don't have all the answers yet. I don't know if I ever will. What I do know is that I am completely present as I write this. I am breathing into everything I am feeling. Creating rifts in my day that will impact the next. Capture that feeling. Capture that moment and do more of it this year.