Well I just spent a leisurely weekend in a couple other mountain towns, 'Crested Butte and Gunnison'. It was a respite. Even though I live in a mountain town and work in another one when you're visiting and you're on vacation it's just different. I relaxed and walked around an art festival, which always makes me want to get creative.
It does remind me of my belief that when you need a moment to just take a mini-holiday in your own town. So often we get caught up in our patterns, and we just need a break. I've been a bit reflective lately, because my birthday is coming up, actually in about an hour and a half MST. Each birthday I take stock of my past year so I can start my new year with a fresh perspective.
My thought this time is that I want to embrace my gifts and talents. And I want to stop selling myself short. I found this quote again (one of the many that I saved)...it spoke to me. "Power can manipulate, coerce, and destroy. And as long as we are convinced we have none, power will always look negative. In fact, power means simply our capacity to act. From this lens, we each have power--and often, much more power than we think. If we accept ecology's insights that we exist in densely woven networks, then we must also accept that every choice we make sends out ripples, even if we're not consciously choosing. So the choice we have is not whether, but only how, we can change the world." --Frances Moore Lappe, In Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad (Small Planet Media).
So my revelations are starting tomorrow--what better day for a beginning then celebrating a birthday!
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