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Wishcasting Wednesday

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What’s your fall wish?

The lowercase “fall” changes this wish, doesn’t it? It’s not just about the season, but the quality and meaning of the word.

Verb: move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to lower level.

Noun: an act of falling or collapsing; a sudden uncontrollable descent.

Drop, sink, go down, collapse, descend. Drop, autumn, downfall, decline, descent, tumble.

I wish to sink into myself this season, drop into my body and my center, to follow nature, to mirror it in this time of slowing down.

I wish to gather all my energy back into my core, pulling it back from the reaching out, the blossoming and growth of Spring and Summer, to descend into that which is essential and fundamental.

I wish to cease producing fruit, offering nourishment, and collapse my energy and effort into stillness and simplicity.

I wish to drop all my work and worry to the ground, golden and red remnants of my labor left to dry up, decay, and disappear, to act as mulch to the earth of my experience.

I wish to retreat, hibernate, germinate, relax, rest, let go, surrender: fall.

Wishcasting Wednesday (on Thursday)

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What do you wish to do one day?

This sort of list is a bit dangerous for me to make, as I recently realized I am a doer, not so much a dreamer, and the lists I make of all the things I want to do would fill five lifetimes.

Live a simple, sane, wholehearted life, with plenty of joy, freedom, love, practice, connection, courage, confidence, wisdom and compassion.

Make my living (the $ part of it) from compassionate service, from connecting people to basic goodness, their own and that around them, so they can also live the kind of life I’d like for myself.

Publish, shorter works and books.

Offer ecourses, workshops, and retreats.

Make art that would justify an Etsy store.

Design and build my own web platform, for all of my work: art, writing, and teaching.

Perform music for an audience, using my voice, my ukelele, and maybe even my own original songs.

Spend a summer in Amsterdam, visit Japan, and travel around Europe. And, I suspect that the more places I’ve seen the more I might want to see.

Earn my certification to be a yoga and meditation instructor. Maybe there might also be some kind of other therapeutic certification as well.

Help form a collective, a co-op for women artists and healers.

Lead a retreat at Shambhala Mountain Center.

Own a home in Waldport, Oregon that can be used as, offered as a retreat center, for both personal and group retreats, (and allow for my own personal use).

Have a location in the Colorado Mountains where we could regularly visit with our dogs in the summer and fall.

Run a 10k, maybe even a half marathon.

Do yoga and a retreat with Jennifer Louden.

Make art and do service with Patti Digh.

Take pictures and walk on the beach with Susannah Conway.

Collaborate on something creative and brave with Andrea Scher.

Take a class and meditate with Natalie Goldberg.

Hear Mary Oliver read her poems, live and in person.

Do a duet with Danielle Ate the Sandwich.

Have an urban farm, which would include a flower garden big enough that during the season, I could have fresh flowers in my house all the time.

Be involved in service work, charity that makes a significant impact on suffering in the world.

Die an easy, peaceful death, allowing those I leave behind the same ease and peace, as well as confidence in the lasting nature of love.