I realized that Belle’s state of super-playfulness this morning with Brian at Acre was a clear indication that she really needed another beach walk ASAP.
Since last Sunday’s crazy waves, I’ve been postponing that first because her digestion was off and then it was just a little too rainy and cold. But the water was calling her and so I made the decision to take the little dog swimming.
Everything shifted, however, when we learned that our friend’s apartment had been flooded overnight and without going into all the details, it’s just not great.
[We still got Belle’s beach time in, given that a wet dog isn’t going to be noticed when there’s a cleaning crew packing everything up.]
Ultimately, we helped out most, just by going out for supportive lunch and dinner.
Feeling enormous empathetic exhaustion, Belle and I took a much needed nap, barely waking up for our Creative Guru client call which was great, and which touched on the topic of Vulnerability.
I hadn’t seen this Brené Brown TED talk before –– although apparently 3.8 million people have –– but Susan recommended it and it’s totally on point for all the events of this day (or any day).
I’ve been thinking a lot about vulnerability lately with my own creative work so all of this is completely on point.
And for a final crackpot flourish to it all, if you read my UNAUTHORIZED BIO here, you’ll note that in Western astrology all my key points are water signs –– all emotion –– although apparently my Enneagram type of 8 rebels against those inclinations completely. [And in Super-Crackpot Human Design, I have the open gate of Extreme Emoting, all of this meaning this is my greatest strength/greatest challenge.]
Anyway, in THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ENNEAGRAM, Sandra Maitri writes about the 8-type, but really everyone, when she says:
“He will know that his openness and vulnerability are his greatest strengths, and that the best defense and the ultimate revenge is the dissolution of his separatist sense of self. If you are open and transparent, even if the body is hurt, your soul remains an immaculate window of the Divine that nothing can injure.”
Or, to quote Brené Brown speaking about the whole-hearted people:
“They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful.”
In other words, we all have a little Michelle Pfeiffer inside ourselves.
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