New Meditation of the Month HERE
There are so many ways to show time passing in movies and TV.
You can be old school corny and show a clock’s rapidly spinning hands.
Or perhaps pages being ripped from a calendar.
Rapidly moving clouds in the sky also work well.
Or you can simply stay focused on the same location as the seasons change.
(Given quarantine, that one sounds quite familiar.)
Anyway, today will be the 347th daily yoga class I’ve taught without a break.
It will also be the 94th day of another 3-minute daily music project and the 1,172nd day of choosing an angel card every morning.
(I’m not really keeping track of the latter; it took 2 seconds to look it up on the app).
Anyway, I’ve found that having this kind of continuity, this adherence to self-created rituals is keeping me (mostly) sane.
And it has greatly strengthened my appreciation for the often underrated virtue of Persistence.
(Persistence is the theme for the new, always free Meditation of the Month HERE.)
Right now, with almost everything I’m working on, it sometimes feels like I’m lost at sea.
I’ve long ago left dry land and yet there is no new shore in sight.
It feels like I’m looking out over a vast ocean of uncertainty, with only more work ahead.
And while I consciously have plenty of real-life examples of the annoyingly true cliche that “hard work pays off” (as I’m sure, so do you), sometimes it feels like a person really needs a capital “W” Win.
That’s when Persistence Is most required.
This year, contrary to every gardening guide, my terrace dahlias bloomed in November.
(The flowering season in NYC is basically July–September).
This led me down a botanical rabbit hole, where I discovered that there were dozens of exotic plants that bloom very rarely.
For example, the Corpse Flower in Sumatra blossoms only once every 8 to 20 years.
Or Mexico’s Century Plant which blooms somewhere between 10 and 25 years.
And finally, most remarkably, The Queen of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia.
It flowers only once every 80 to 100 years.
(Sadly, if you haven’t timed your lifespan right, you could totally miss it.)
I have a lot more to share about Persistence and I will later this month…
(Including a few stories where I––sometimes quite foolishly––did not take “No” for an answer and thus caused things to work out in my favor…well, maybe 50% of the time).
For now, I just want to leave you with the new meditation HERE and a few reminders:
When you’re about to give up hope on whatever seed you’ve planted––or when the shore seems completely out of sight––remember that sometimes things bloom at unusual times.
Most things in our garden do blossom in predictable ways, but the timetables are never ours to impose.
Perhaps for all of us there’s an exotic bloom about to happen, on its own schedule, not yours (or mine).
Namaste for Now,
