Making Meaning

I am deep in meaning-creating and structure-designing and conscious grounding over here. Weaving together filaments of ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’ — of ‘sacred’ and ‘mundane.’ I have known in my heart for a while that this chapter was coming— the one where I re-member that daily life, even in 21st century America is sacred..It’s easy enough to feel ‘spiritual’ when we’re traveling around the world to beautiful energetic vortexes (like all of the quotes? It’s because we’re re-membering that the definitions of all of these words are based on old paradigms)..But what about HERE? If we feel like we need to go somewhere else to find ease and joy and holiness, what are we really telling ourselves? Ultimately, that the sacred isn’t to be found HERE. Retreats are so powerful, and I will continue to lead them, and I also know there are sacred energies EVERYWHERE..The emptiness and meaninglessness that so many modern Americans feel is because we have forgotten how to engage with daily life in a sacred way. We have forgotten that it is the WAY that we do things that makes them a portal for holiness and change, or just another rote action inside a meaningless vacuum..When we remember to remember to sing to the bathwater and fill it with salt, to bless our doorways so that all who may enter feel love, to talk to the birds at the windowsill, to make medicine from plants and trees instead of CVS— we will be SHOCKED at how the meaninglessness and emptiness simply vanishes..And as I ground into a new home, in a familiar landscape, and as I make a portal of light for all in this city and state who want to remember, I am blessing every inch of this place and my words and my actions with meaning. This is how we create the world we want to live in..We create it.