Thirty-Five: Accepting, Embracing, Enjoying, Expressing
 Posted
Apr-7-2007
7 x 5 = 35
According to the time and space quality of our earthly dimension, this week completes my 35th year as a Human Being. And as a Human Being contemplating this accomplishment, I find it interesting how we humans measure many "important" facets of our lives by numbers.
We put much emphasis on the symbolic meaning of numbers because of what they translate into in a physical or material sense. for instance, I've always anticipated "35" as the magic number between young adulthood and the onset of the "summer" of one's life. All of this is fabricated fantasy within my mind, of course, because now as I stand looking at both the 3 and the 5 squarely in the eye, I realize that they have only the interpretive power, limits, and symbolism that I give to them.
Other numbers that seem to hold great power over human lives include: time, dates, weight, BMI, BP, benching weight, credit scores, income, credit lines, bank account balances, property values, IQ, ZIP codes, how-much-you-paid-for-this-or-that, and on and on it goes. Ironically, the last number in a person's life is the second one after the dash (—) on a tombstone. Thankfully, that one is left as an unknown variable... otherwise we'd be comparing that one too.
What would life be like without the focus on these numbers? Perhaps that is what it is like in the spiritual realm, if such a realm exists. I think it does, for if I try hard enough I can find that quiet place deep within myself where all the numbers, facts, and figures simply fall into a big unimportant pile on the floor and peace and love fill their place.
Unfolding Wonderings of a Life
As I stand on the cusp of my 36th year, I wonder many things; some out loud through my writings and others quietly in my soul. It has become my tradition to gift myself with a special writing on every anniversary of my birth (my birthday), and this year is no exception. However, I scheduled so many events on my calendar this week that it took me three whole days to get to the meat of this writing. Ah, more numbers. The enduring lesson in that is: go with the flow.
On the thought of numbers and dates, maybe the measurement of the year helps us to segment important pieces of our lives, not unlike a computer hard drive does for saving bits and bytes of data into memory. We refer back to important events by association with other events, people, memories, and milestones. "When I was five, I lost my first tooth eating black licorice." (I really did!) "I boarded my first airplane when I was 18 to visit my brother living in Phoenix, Arizona." (True.) "I started wearing shoes again and stopped dressing like a cave girl after I got my bare foot stuck in the spokes of my pink Huffy bike's front tire when I was 10." (And I waited hours in the Emergency Room to see the doctor for stitches that I didn't need anyway.)
Why do I share so many seemingly personal details about my thoughts with the world? Why not? We are not all so different as to be able to hide what is truly pulsing through us. We share the same band of emotional range, our biology is curiously the same, and we move through familiar patterns and life episodes from the beginning to the end. My fears are also your fears. My courage is also your courage. I like chocolate and don't like housecleaning. And you?
The truth is that I share to facilitate connection, resonance, and empowerment for anyone reading these words to know that their own life is just as significant and important as anyone else's, and that they have grand potential within themselves to be, do, or have anything that they desire in this life if they are willing to put forth the energy to make it happen. And yes, I desire to leave something of value before slipping away from this world. These writings are time capsule of intention and recorded legacy of one life — my life — expressed from the core of my being.
Who is Inspiring Me in 2007?
Last year at this time I was finishing up several creativity coaching trainings with author Eric Maisel. Those trainings planted so many seeds of possibility and elicited an abundance of new energetic pathways that will continue to serve me for the rest of my life. I have since learned that others have taken his trainings on account of my testimonials, and I am confident that those individuals have (and will) discover many buried treasures within themselves and their creative lives through the experience.
Since last fall I've been doing a lot of reading on the subject of energy, which began with an engaging book by Dr. Judith Orloff titled "Positive Energy" that my sister brought for me to read on my 2-week sabbatical in Arizona. That book led me to a host of others on subtle energy, manifesting, abundance, and the Secret that hasn't been a secret at all in some circles, the famous Law of Attraction. A few months ago that path led me to the works of Dr. Wayne Dyer, who writes about things that have undeniable resonance within me and have been influencing many of my recent writings on the Current Living Web site. Again, I approach any new learnings with the philosophy of "take what's useful and leave the rest."
Looking over the past year, I am thrilled at my accomplishments in support of my creative life. Here's the highlights:
Yes, this year has been all about Accepting, Embracing, Enjoying, and Expressing ... in celebration of this beautiful life I am gifted with and the endless bounty of fruit the tree of creativity is producing in my life. •
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