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Subject: find something beautiful
How are you feeling?
Things are…
I don’t even know. It’s hard to find the right words.
Dark. Bleak. Terrifying.
I find myself vacillating between two emotional extremes.
10:17am
Tired, hopeless, devastated. Cancel everything. Crawl under covers and cry. Throw the computer out the window. Scream into the void.
10:21am
Energized, motivated, powerful. Put on your armor. March in the streets. Stop holding back! Create new things, share your healing gifts, and mobilize the feminine to prepare for an uprising.
10:27am
Collapse on the floor and stare blankly at the ceiling.
Rinse and repeat.
Here’s what feels true to me at this moment…
We are important, and our gifts are needed now more than ever.
These “little businesses” we’ve created have the potential to heal the wounded masculine ravaging our communities.
But not yet.
Right now, we need to rest and recover.
Do whatever you need to take care of yourself this weekend and next week or for however long you need to regulate and recharge.
Now is the time to practice deep rest.
Sleep, feel your feelings, make art, exercise, laugh, play.
Then, look around and find something beautiful.
I listened to this podcast episode (highly recommended) earlier this week and loved what the guest said about beauty.
This is a poor paraphrase, but basically, he said that appreciating beauty is how we open ourselves to the energy of love.
When love feels far away, look for the beauty around you and feel love rushing back in. It’s truly the best medicine.
I’ve been basking in the beauty of my three old dogs lounging in front of the fireplace…
Look around you right now.
What’s one thing of beauty you can spot in this moment?
Pause. Take it in. Let love recharge you.
If you feel like it, hit “reply” and share it with me.
Take good care of yourself.
We need you for what’s to come.
Love,
Maegan
P.S. Here’s a quote that made me feel a bit better.
I read it in an email sent by Jeff Tweedy, which my husband, Jonathan, shared with me while sipping gin and tonics at the dining room table.
It’s by Barbara Kingsolver:
“Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.
But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it’s a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can’t save everything all at once, but it’s still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.
And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.”
