Thirty-eighth Invitation

Hi Dear Hearts!

A year ago around this time I wrote a New Years  greeting newsletter as we embarked on 2017, expressing trepidation about our new president...  I was surprised to lose a few readers after that newsletter — but that was just the beginning of a divide that I couldn’t have even imagined would be so vast.

 

I have not written for a long time...  I have thought of writing as inspirations arose...  but I allowed those moments to come and go without acting on them...  Perhaps that was a miss but I found myself just trying to keep my head above water as Trump attacked and repealed human, animal and earth rights almost every day of this year and in response, my body stumbled along the way....  

 

Today I write on a cloudy and cold wintry day as we approach 2018.  (You will probably be reading this in the first half of January).  Mostly just to say “hello in there!”  (My college roommate fell in love with this term from a song in the 80’s — and helped me get what a beautiful greeting it is. It is about reaching into one’s inner spaces and where one really lives inside — with sunshine, Light, caring and greetings).  

 

It’s been a reflective time for me as I re-organized my closet this holiday and found myself going through boxes of old photos and letters, some dating back over forty years or more...  

 

All in a life... so many different phases, stages, people, animals, locations, chapters, eras....  

 

I came across a box of cassette tapes that recorded expressions of love for people in my life and heart.  There were recorded in the nineties. In the case that I transitioned, I wanted to make sure that each person I loved would receive a love communication from me after I left my body.  As I went through this box of at least 30 tapes, I found that most of the folks that I made the tapes for are no longer in their bodies and some of the others are no longer in my life. Strange how time unfolds the comings and goings in life.  My best friend always says “life is change” and he could not be more right.   I think only four tapes were returned to the box in my closet for those special people who are still embodied and in my life, except for the fact that cassette tapes are relics!

 

In the years...  

 

Before writing this newsletter, I have re-visited some of my other January newsletters that I have sent out over the years.  Most of these January newsletters address embracing the sense of renewal and meaning that we bring to this time of the year — intentions and heart desires, and the importance of living in alignment with our values and principles.  It’s all been said... we know all about the meanings we apply to “January” and “planting seeds” for how we want to shape ourselves into the coming new year.  

 

So, I write, not because I am inspired with a big “ah-ha” or a profound inspiration...  

I write because after going through my photos and collection of letters from the past, I am left with a sense of emptiness and simultaneous fullness that connection brings within the passing of time.  

 

So, here we are.  This moment.  Allowing for.  Connection. Within the understanding. Of Impeccable Impermanence.

 

I reach out. To Breathe. With you.  Into this life Journey that we are all in Together.

 

And to say, “Hello in There!”               

 

Lovefully,  

devajoy