Taking off the Shutters

Clearing my mind has always been hard for me

I practice deep breathing

Sometimes meditation and yoga

all are helpful

What's hard for me is to declutter my brain

sweep out the cobwebs from the corners

wipe down the layers of dust that have accumulated over the years

My Artist Way course is helping me clear the clutter.

I've been skeptical of its effect

But I'm inching forward toward being a timid believer

Driving today, I spied a field floating in a sea of sunny, yellow flowers

Yellow is happy

I was happy

Writing in the mornings, first thing, isn't easy, but I feel like it's meditative for me

Jotting down my stream of conscious on three pages every day feels like cleaning house

There's more room for

noticing

remembering

creating

imagining

It's like taking off the plantation shutters fixed to the windows for 18 years

Who knew how robbed we were of an unobstructed view

Sunlight, clarity held back for decades

The view is breathtaking and just gets better...