70. Respect

Flow


Wind

Artwork by:

Meg Vellejos-McCoy at innerlifecreations.com.

Day 237 of 2021 and Day 2095 of her Daily Painting Practice.

How do you demonstrate respect for the Flow of all creation and destruction?

I dreamed I bought a beautiful, big house. The first time I went into the downstairs powder room, the door fell off. It actually pulled out — frame and all. Light came through a crack behind the pulled-off frame and revealed a huge and expansive crawl space beneath the adjacent section of the house.

There were several vacuum-packed freezer parcels of meat that had been tied to a cement block and thrown by someone into the far reaches of the crawl space. Rotten meat. I couldn’t smell it, but there it was. I knew I’d have to crawl in there to retrieve the parcels. I didn’t want to do that but I knew I would.

I could have just fastened the door back in place and pretended not to have seen the task at hand demanding attention. Nope.

So, I anticipate something in my life will reveal something rotten but well-sealed that is in my sub-conscious — a pattern, a thought or a trauma that someone else put there. When I see it, I’ll do the uncomfortable work to remove it. Who wants rotten meat in their crawl space?

I demonstrate respect for the Flow by not resisting what is inconveniently presenting itself. By that I mean my protective shield of denial needs to be consciously set aside.