“Tending Altar” created in Purisma Creek Redwoods
So often I coach clients who suffer from what I call “Destination Addiction.” It sounds like this- “When I lose weight…When I get that job…When I get the perfect partner…When I finish that project…When I complete that ultramarathon….then I’ll be happy.”
Nature and creativity are tools to help us dissolve certain mindsets. The invitation here was to forage within a radius of 20 ft. To weave together our inner and outer landscapes by asking, “How can I use what’s around me to create beauty? How can I see the ordinary with new eyes to make something new?”
“If your everyday life seems to lack material, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, for there is no lack for him who creates and no poor, trivial place. ”
It begins by simply looking and noticing what’s actually here. The richness that exists in this moment and place. Instead of waiting to reach the ‘destination’ to be happy, how can you celebrate the present moment and tend to it? Praise it? Be astonished by it?