Tag: Artistry of Aging

Employed By The Universe

Wolf Creek, Grass Valley, CA, Photo by Jane Sheppard

WANT AD FROM THE UNIVERSE

SEEKING HUMANS WITH THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS FOR CONSCIOUS OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE WITH THE UNIVERSE

  • Open heart willing to give and receive love without restraint
  • Abundant and available compassion for self and other living beings
  • Willing to fall on one’s face and fail in order to learn and grow
  • Ever present sense of humor with a tendency to laugh frequently with others and at ones self
  • Takes breaks often to experience pleasure and deepening of relationships
  • Intimately connected with the natural world and is guided by the wild within and without
  • Sees through the lens of possibility, trusting the unfolding of life
  • Considered an “artist of life” and a “creator of connection”
  • Uses all senses to the fullest every single day
  • Walks in the rain and steps in puddles
  • Is spontaneous and sometimes seen breaking out in dance steps in public
  • Easily engages with small children and is willing to enter their magical perception of life
  • Dwells in awe and wonder often, in and out of the presence of children
  • Is kind to animals, people, nature and even inanimate objects
  • Actively and frequently practices random acts of kindness
  • Is easily able to dwell in silence and reflection without distraction
  • Actively engages in life with curiosity and courage
  • Loves to grow things and delights in their presence, nurturing their specific needs and desires
  • Has a working knowledge of organic and regenerative farming practices
  • Has the ability to play with abandon and delight
  • Is passionate about learning and trying on new ways of being in the world
  • Does not judge or make assumptions, but does take time to explore the depth/breadth of any given situation or living being
  • Dazzled by color, light, textures, shapes, forms and the beauty found everywhere
  • Honors and respects all elements – earth, water, fire, air and ether – as part of the whole
  • Willingness to experience all emotions and deepen emotional intelligence
  • Is transparent with ones self and others as much as possible in any given moment
  • Willingness to try on new ventures, skills and pathways
  • Does not postpone joy
  • Finds beauty and potential everywhere
  • Accepts death and the natural transitions of an embodied lifetime
  • Isn’t afraid to make noises and sounds in “inappropriate” times and places
  • Celebrates embodied life with gratitude every single day
  • Ability to listen mindfully and be a witness to others pains, struggles and concerns with empathic awareness and compassion
  • Acceptance of the mystery of life and ability to comfortably dwell in not knowing
  • Sees every fear, challenge and failure as an opportunity for collaboration and connection
  • Refuses to “behave appropriately” from time to time
  • Believes in magic and synchronicity
  • Connects and sustains relationship with nature as part of ones self, never separate
  • Lives simply from “enough”
  • Is familiar and comfortable with a “gift economy”
  • Wears funny hats and clothes from time to time
  • Must have knowledge and awareness of earths operating system and possess “Universal band width”
  • Embraces the stars, planets and galaxies as living systems
  • Willingness to live life with free form improvisation
  • Perceives all life as sacred….and interconnected

IF YOU POSSESS SOME OR ALL OF THESE ATTRIBUTES AND WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, FOR WHICH MORE DETAILS WILL BE PROVIDED – TRUST IS MANDATORY, THEN PLEASE APPLY AT YOUR NEAREST FAVORITE TREE

There are many of us, like myself, who choose to continue working in some capacity for regenerative economic flow and to contribute their unique artistry, abilities and wisdom. As I have been exploring what conscious livelihood is for me at this stage of life the above came through “from the Universe”.

Most of these “qualifications” came through as foundations for the shift humans are making at this time in order to support thriving for all living beings, as well as our living breathing planet earth and beyond.

It is my deepest desire to partner with others who see all life as sacred and are collaborating, innovating and creating on behalf of well being and sustainability for all. Feel free to connect with me. I am available for Universal Livelihood!

GAYE ABBOTT

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Love Much, Think Less

Re-posted from Wildly Free Elder, 8/14/21

“The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”

St Teresa of Avila

For the past 4 months I have been loving Saturday mornings for the local Farmers Market taking place in my new home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of N. Carolina. Today I was moved by a woman standing next to me at my favorite organic farm stall at the University of N. Carolina tailgate market. She had a bunch of sunflowers in her hand and several bunches of dahlias in her carry basket. I exclaimed “those flowers always make me smile!”

Her response back also made me smile as she said “Life is too precious not to have flowers in it . I consider it my therapy and have fresh flowers in my house all the time.” I loved her spontaneous response to me, a stranger whom she shared her love of beauty with. Our connection was one of sharing our love for not only flowers and the sensual pleasure they bring, but also to enjoy the moment of contact and to open that energetic space of love.

Imagining the unseen energies – presence – that surround each flower bringing it from seed to germination to leaf to bloom. Rather like our lives.

At times we are faced with challenges where the energies of love and gratitude seem a million miles away. Thinking takes over contracting us within a cage of our own creation. Yet, I am aware more and more that love is always right here surrounding every living being and every conscious action – even the act of breathing in and out which is intricately interwoven with all life.

What if we saw within each and every challenge, or simply each moment of everyday life, an opportunity to release contracted thinking energy and be present to take actions that “best stir us to love”.

Since relocating across country away from friends, family, sons and grandkids there have been multiple opportunities to shift challenges and release contracted thinking. One of the most powerful ones wiithin the first 4 months being here happened when I “failed” the vision test to obtain a N. Carolina drivers license.

Having scheduled my appointment right before my California drivers license expired on my birthday my thinking mind made it not only mandatory to obtain my new license, but actually had me paralyzed with fear that I might lose my freedom of independence if not able to obtain a drivers license.

I was immersed in this “worry cage” for a few days, but at the same time took conscious actions to shift this thinking that had taken such a strangle hold upon me. First of all putting everything into perspective, knowing that this was not about survival or control but about releasing into “loving much”.

Within 4 days I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist, was corrected to 20/20 vision and heard my cataracts were not at all ready for surgery; obtained corrective glasses the same day from a wonderful caring optician team of people a short distance away; rescheduled my DMV appointment for N. Carolina drivers license for 3 weeks away; learned that having an expired drivers license is not the big deal I thought it was; studied for the written test which I was certain I was going to have to take; drove to a small little town one and a half hours away for the completion of the DMV process; was in and out in 15 minutes without having to take the written test (better N. Carolina driver because of the intense study!) and walked away with license, new ID card and was registered to vote.

All of this to say that for most of us we always have choice as to how we meet each moment of our lives whether in patterns of assumptions/contracted thinking/fear or with the openness of possibility, living in the spaciousness of love and gratitude.

Like an artist trusting the creative energy that emerges from within we dip our brush in the colors of life and do that which best stirs us to love.

“Elemental Musings” offers postings by a nature lover and elder in transition in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of North Western N. Carolina, in addition to postings by the Wildly Free Elder community.

Post by Gaye Abbott, 8/14/21, Natural Passages Consulting.

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Aging with vitality, grace, self love and compassion, along with a huge dose of humor, is our greatest accomplishment.  After all, getting older is something many will never experience.

The Japanese say – Shi Bui – which translates as the beauty of aging.

Rather than being a fall away from beauty in all of it’s meanings, aging can be the revelation of beauty, the time when the inner radiance becomes visible for all genders.

Shining from the inside out our natural presence is honored by finding dignity, reverence, belonging, resilience, humor and wholeness – from within.

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Created by Gaye Abbott, Natural Passages Consulting, August 7, 2020