I haven’t posted anything for a while. There’s a lot of rubbish stuff going on in the world (yes that’s a judgement). There’s a lot of wonderful stuff too. Sometimes it feels tricky to find the balance between acknowledging our judgements and our pain / sadness / anger, and focusing on love and how we can bring more love and peace to the world.
My autistic brain has tried to help me out at times by spending days researching immigration (my own, as an immigrant in Portugal), investment strategies and all things numbers. Anything that felt more controlled or controllable. Rules. My brain likes rules.
The truth is, life, the way we tend to experience it, is mostly uncontrollable and mostly uncertain. All we have is how we choose to feel about it, where we put our faith, and how responsible we are for cleaning up our side of the street.
So we do our practices, whether that be a coffee ritual, yoga, running or martial arts, knitting or playing with our dog or children. We keep breathing, keep putting one put in front of the other, keep being kind, to ourselves and others.
We remove ourselves from conversations that lean into hatred, judgement, blame or gossip. It doesn’t help. We find safe spaces to express our feelings (all of them), without amplifying them, so they can be felt and released. We do what we can. We let ourselves enjoy happy moments, because if not now, when?
We believe in love. We believe in the power of love, and through love, we find moments of joy, moments of peace, and moments of meaning.
When times feel hard
