A story of place within you
Elaine France
Helping problem-solvers for the planet use foresight to imagine, design & create flourishing futures with their communities.
As we head to the close of the year, I want to blend futures thinking and mountain wisdoms, as a way of saying thank you for taking the time to follow and read this newsletter. It really means a lot to be connected.
As you move through the days ahead, make time to look back across the past year. Reflect on the paths that you’ve travelled. Be in-love with all of the moments of grace that have carried you. Recognize the past as a sacred friend and celebrate together how far you’ve come. Give thanks for the people who have journeyed with you, especially those you didn’t see or know about: after all, love is not always visible, or vocal, but like the moon it’s always there.
Cherish the fact that you have arrived in the present. Stand in it. Rather than feeling the present pushing you towards futures, pause. Breathe. Rest. Put down logic and instead listen, listen, listen to the energy that wants to flow. More than anything, allow yourself to stop pushing the river.
And now, look inwards. Flourishing Futures start first as a story of place within each of us: beyond this, at their very core, these futures are a story of relationship…with ourselves, each other, with Nature and all of the non-human beings around us. Everything is connected. Amidst all of the noise that is to come, rest calm within the story that you want your life to tell, otherwise someone else’s story will tell it for you.
What will your inner story be, the one that unfolds flourishing futures?
I wish you and yours many blessings.
Elaine
(c) 2024. Elaine France.