This Whole Thing is Outgrowing Us

This is what healthy forest moss looks like!  Finally, this year, the colors in the forest look vibrant and healthy.  That bright green color that I treasure, on the early growth of moss, can be found in many places where it has been absent for too long.  
Think of the tenacity it shows, hanging on through everything so that it can do THIS.

As spring is bounding to life, the animals in the forest are coming out of hiding and making themselves seen or heard.  In the very early mornings, the songs of birds are deafening in their variety and enthusiasm.  There is so much to eat around here that the quail actually waddle like ducks.

It's a time of hope, of new beginnings.  For me, it's a time of much travel, as the closure of Highway 1 means that I now travel many more miles each week on my way to and from Monterey.  Once the highway opens, there will be even more driving!  I'll be going up as far as the place where the bridge used to be, making deliveries, and turning around.  And then, also driving out to go to Monterey.  How is this going to be possible?

I miss the drive along the coast, and my friends, during this time.  It's a challenge to see new ways of doing things, find new projects, new relationships.  All in all, I do find that my creativity is being stimulated to a terrific degree as I make my way through the uneven terrain of this moment.  I feel very much reduced in size by the actions of Nature, and humbled by the grace that has sustained me, the kind thoughts and words and deeds of friends.  I feel that the vastness of what we are experiencing at this time is too much to put into words.

Nevertheless, I am doing my best to do that.  I know that I am meant to write about the unexpected, and its gifts to us.  This blog is one place to do that.  As spring opens up the channels and releases the floodgates of abundance that we see in each blossom, strategies to fit writing a new book into my life are also appearing.

I know some of the things I will do.  And I know that I will think of others as I go along.   This one thing is for sure: 

I am not going to "find the time".  

That doesn't happen.   

I am going to Make the Time.

Running several businesses, raising a ranch, taking care of my family when they were kids...I learned how to do it.

Want to know HOW????

Let's talk about it!  

Click on the link above to schedule a complimentary talk about how to create time.

Enjoy your day!

Betty

 

Turn it Over and See What Comes Up

You know the saying, "leave no stone unturned", don't you?  It's all about looking for the less obvious things in life, like hidden doors to unknown dimensions, or buried treasure. You know they are there, but the exact way to find them is not always so apparent.

The hidden gifts of life are right under our noses!  That huge rock that is right in the middle of the path, the one you have to walk around to get where you are going, is guarding something.  It has a message for you.  
What if everything you ever wanted was right under that rock?

You'd find a way to turn it over, right?  

You'd try ANYthing to move it.  

How would it be if you asked the rock to move, so that you could look under it?  It might work, and then again, it might not.  What else could you do?  Would you go find somebody to help you move the rock?  Would you shrug your shoulders and say "Oh, well, it just wasn't meant to be"?  What about getting a shovel and digging around it, using the leverage you could gain, and gravity?

Or would you find your hidden superpowers (there they are, right in the bottom of my purse, must have ignored them a million times)?

I vote for the superpowers!  

Right now, you have the power to COMMAND that rock to move.  Just for the sake of the vision, let's say you just did that.  What's underneath the rock?  Are you happy that you found all those hidden desires made into realities?  Or, are you saying, "gee, I should have asked for more than that"?

How about going for the biggest dream you can imagine as being something that you not only can accomplish, but that has been waiting for the whole life of the Universe (4.4 billion years) for you to show up and claim it?

Do me a quick favor, since you already have gotten this far.  Write down that dream.  Look at it.  Believe in it.  Breathe life into it.
That's what I ask of you right now.  Believe you are the one that you really are. 

Write down your dream.  

Write out your story.  

Make your move.  

It's not too early, and it's not too late.   

It's time, Now. 

Let's make that more and more real, every day.

Begin at the Beginning

The view above is from Nacimiento Road looking toward Cone Peak.  It's down the hill from the place where the road bed is currently being repaired.  If driving uphill, it marks the place where a sharp haripin turn indicates that the ascent will be steep and dramatic in places.  I love this little spot, where there is a small pullout and a feeling of being sheltered.  A small path, which I have never taken, leads off into the woods.  There is an air of mystery about it.  Where does it go?  What is there to see?  what hidden mountain vista is visible only from that one spot?
 
Make time for your message to come out and meet the world.  I can help you create that kind of time.  Curious what I mean?  Schedule a time to go over how you can create a different kind of time.

Enjoy the season!  

You can do more than you think you can.

Best,

Betty