Balance.... it's more difficult than it looks

Well, we are in fact here typing rather than racing around the country in our new Beemer. However, the huge ego counterattack wasn’t totally off the mark. As we delve into the depths of making true changes in the way we live, our brains and egos do indeed get a bit confused and start to panic. According to Caroline Myss, a revered author on matters of the spirit, this sort of crisis is common when trying to move forward in a life that is more grounded in one’s purpose.

Right in line with this, we continue to struggle with finding the balance between time spent relaxing/reading/meditating and time spent working/studying/volunteering. We have had many long discussions this week about the confusing and frustrating feelings we are having and so we have revisited the structure we have given to our lives (we find putting our daily activities in a schedule form is really empowering). We are playing with shifting the balance in different ways between how much of our day is spent on more mundane tasks verses exciting ones. We expect this will be ever changing but hope to get it to a place that is more stable than not.

The talking does help as does reminding each other of the things we are learning/have learned from our favorite authors. So with this in process, we continue to develop and evolve our goals and our dreams, and once they are more solidly understood in our hearts, we’ll share some of them on the blog. Andy continues his volunteering and, while enjoying both projects, feels particularly at peace when walking the dogs at the Humane Society. Evan continues his learning and is fascinated at present with anthropology and sociology- especially how different people relate to the Divine and what themes are present throughout cultures and time. He believes this interest will develop at some point into a service project that fits well with the other dreams and goals we are pursuing. We are presenting at a lecture series on travel on November 19: “From the Himalayas to Blind Massage, a Nepal Volunteering Adventure,” and getting all our slides together on the computer is taking way more work than we thought…. This will be another major activity this week. Hopefully we can drum up some support for Seeing Hands. If anyone is in the Bellingham area and would like to come, it is at the downtown library at 7pm.

Assuming all goes well… no computer meltdowns (or breakage due to being thrown out a window etc.)… no Beemers… or leather pants… or rapture into some transcendental oblivion… we fully intend to have yet another glorious and fantastic update for you next week. Love to all of you!

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“It amazes me how often people use that phrase: ‘find the right life.’ Would you walk into your kitchen hoping to find the right fried egg, the right cup of coffee, the right toast? Such things don’t simply appear before you; they arrive because you rummage around, figure out what’s available, and make what you want.” (Martha Beck)