Change

I've been doing a lot of thinking and exploring these last few months and one of my happy discoveries is Patti Digh. Thank you Craig and Katherine for introducing me to her. Here's a paragraph verbatim from her book, Creative is a Verb, that struck a chord with me.

Change is that terrible, scary, and often fantastic place between insight and action. Sometimes it's hard. Often. It's swimming upstream. It's giving up the excuses we've used thus far to keep ourselves from changing (and that's hard because we've finely honed those excuses over many years, usually, and we're used to them, thank you very much.)

I'm working hard on figuring out what changes I need to make in order to find my one wild and precious life. It's tough and I'm scared often and I'm ever so grateful for the support of my dear friends who are helping me through this and encouraging me to be tough and brave and make the changes. Christi is applauding and cheering all the time and propping me back up and pushing me out the door so I can figure out (insight) what it is I need to do and to make change for the good (action). Thank you, Christi. Also constantly cheering me on and telling me I can do this are Leslie, Jenny, Jen and Brenna, while some others pop up here and there with a kind word of encouragement. Where would I be without my dear friends? Thank you.