Feeling a few parts of meta-clarity coming. I’ll give myself permission to start with pieces. And then add some more in further posts.

I’m the kind of human that loves this kind of image below. I draw this specific one often in my notebook that I carry in my back pocket. The first time I drew it was at an in-person gathering where 20 of us had been together for a few days in retreat and learning. I was trying to understand the feeling in the room. The coherence of things going well. And, as is so often true for me, I wanted to understand what was underneath.

I like maps. Simplified images that give overview. And, embolden values. And, create practice. And that are easy to come back to. Important in all the complexities of the day, right. We humans, we need the big story and we need the small story too, right.

It’s a map that I love to feel. I like it that it blurs my vision just a bit. It’s not a telescope to a specific location on a specific star — I suppose it could be. I think of it as a napkin view of what’s really going on. And sometimes, this image is my alternative org chart that I offer to people wishing the deep work.

There you go. To be continued.

Sunflowers grow a plenty where Dana and I live. This one (and several others) from a walk earlier this week, enveloped a sidewalk near a new-home construction. I love these sunflowers for their persistence in Utah’s hot summers. It seems so enduring. And, I love them for their splashes of radiant yellow, little beacons of beauty amidst the hot and brown and dry. I love them for the way they sway and dance in the wind, most growing 3-4 feet of lanky stem.

Wander Wednesday

— I’m inviting practice. Be it for five or fifty minutes today. Give the prompt below a bit of your attention. Let insight come. Random associations. Application at any scale welcomed (the big stuff of world happenings; the small stuff of sunflowers). Application at any domain welcomed (the work stuff of projects; the personal stuff of life lifing).

Just sit with the question. Or walk with it. Let your noticing be gentle for this five or fifty minutes, as if nothing else were beckoning. Maybe there is an insight, the tiniest of aha, that will show itself to you. Or an intuition, a hunch that you’ve known inside for quite a while, but have been hesitant to say out loud. Or a joy. Or a mini-rest from your very busy mind. Or a reset for all of the other stuff that is surely still demanding your speed.

What is a gift of slowing down for you?

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Here’s my reflection. As is so often true for me, it’s a collage. What is a gift of slowing down for me? I need to experience a generosity of time. Generosity of spirt really. Not a rush, like so many things are. Not a missing of things, which is always true and compels my tenacity. Rather, a completeness in the moment. All is well for these five minutes. There is enough. I’m enough. Slowing down reminds me of something deeper and more grounded, already in me.

You’re welcome to leave a comment, your gift. Or just do it privately. It all stirs to the same pot.

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If you’ve been tracking for a while, you know the importance of Wander to me. I feel like I’m crafting a new language for consciousness artistry and practice.

Thx AI — I asked for a few questions this morning that I morphed to this below.

• How could wander change who you are and how you approach your life and work?
• What might wander give you as renewal for your leadership and for your inner being?
• How might intuition be just what you need now for your next stages of life / work?

I’ll keep asking these kinds of questions. And bringing intention to workshops and community.

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