Closing the Last Chapter

 

Accomplishments

• being present and open here with detachment/release/surrender/openness to being acknowledged
• looking with fresh eyes into what I'm holding/carrying/intending
• focused efforts where I saw I could provide value
• a willingness to push/risk with others
• honesty
• new interactions
• mixing working & play
• cross-pollinating project
• being willing to look at fears, weaknesses, doubts & frustration
• finding strength to get through isolation & detachment
• being the first of our group to go swimming in the river
• building a balanced arch
• curry and cooking
• awesome video - working hard to complete a video project which carries a message we're trying to share
• finding chicken of the woods and other mushrooms and bringing it to our dining table
• taking initiative around gathering and picking food for our meals from the gardens
• passion for documentation / media and care for the audience to connect
• aperspectivalism
• kindness and sensitivity
• driving Ruben
• sexy legs!
• taking time to exercise regularly ... and for getting quiet time and connection to nature
• flexibility and ease around housing arrangements
• expressing urgency when needed
• knowledge: breadth and depth of practical knowledge
• courage to try to hitch-hike to australia
• consistent awareness of self and group 
• self-awareness
• stewarding the conflict with Lynn gently and elegantly
• taking the week to drive across the country this spring
• sticking with the vision and passion for being a part of a project like this
• being brave and perservering
• giving permission to others to explore... and connect with earth...
• being scared and speaking anyway
• jumping right into leadership around fixing up the space on day one
• ocean room floor
• continue to explore gameshifting
• the size of your heart
• integrity, perspective, insight, clarity.
• humor and  perspicacity

Completions

• releasing the need to have a clear plan 
• I release my fear for my own survival
• release the sense of being incapable of having a loving relationship
• expectations of myself providing perfectly clear, concise communication 
• let go of expectations for a personality that is full of humor, wit and spontaneity
• release the need to always be focused on a task, outcome or concrete goal
• letting go of the goal of excessive wealth in traditional terms... release the need for that kind of "security"
• let go of attachment to money as the measure of worth and wealth
• let go of failure have a home/community/partner/wealth/purpose/resume/family
• let go of changing the world (today)
• Pri: release you of the expectation that I have to do things your way for you to see me.
• Eric: release you of the expectation to do more video stuff
• release others of having to produce deliverables
• release others from having to communicate about ELL in a way that I expect
• release others from having to fit their story telling into my framework
• releasing connection and assessments about past incomplete projects and failures
• needing to know who I am

Opening the Next Chapter

 

Where is magic and inspiration leading me?

• into the great wide open
• facing fully forward each day
• being released, open and present
• returning to affirmation of myself
• play with exercise more and more (also as a way to connect with people and projects, and my own power and potental)
• continue to cultivate and explore ablity to see and convey through the magic of media
• accessing latent beauty, truth, value and coherence ... uncovering, discovering and connecting it
• weaving / finding common ground
• bridge building ... allowing people to step outside of their normal story into healthy new perspectives
• helping others to acknowledge and release
• ceremony of communion, amnesty, transcendance
• inspired to be more me each day
• stretching boundaries and growing without losing center / integrity
• taking on more practices ... kindness & compassion
• a lady in my future