Surrounded in Impermanence

I took to the woods this afternoon. The Michigan winter weather was favorable, and I wanted to clear my mind. I find solace in Nature, and today's hike did not disappoint. I have been struggling with The Feels that awash this Mind Body from time to time.

?I must accept this 2nd Half of Life as Richard Rohr talks about. Everything really has changed, Jobs/Career, That Ship has Sailed, at least in how I once knew it. As I write this, a conversation with a colleague recently comes to mind, it seemed that she talked in circles, the point I guess is what I thought was unfolding isn’t. And moreover, I likely didn't want it anyway.

For those of us that are single and solo, Dating, Like how does that work post 60? Not sure it does. It just seems complicated. My GrowingFREE SimpleLife is Not Complicated, Everyday Does Feel Like a Saturday.

Everything Changes from What We Knew,

Impermanence is Everything.

It is an Opportunity, a Time for “Seeing” Where I Have Turned a Blind Eye to People, Places & Things. And,............ Would I even want to re-play what’s already played? Impermanence seems to highlight that We Are Alone, always really, but it seems we fill the voids by Turning a Blind I to People, Places & Things, therefore not really noticing, Until We Do,

We Are Surrounded in Impermanence.

And the Regrets of What Changed Things that Lead to Impermanence. I have been thinking about a Housemates Co-Living Development. And, a couple of interesting conversations around that with some folks who have been following my journey, hinted at being interested in partnering. In a Younger Time, I would have jumped on the opportunity.

What Now, it’s a challenge to filter out the Ego, or get lost in it, I’m pretty happy just slinging hot sauce, dogs & craft bbq,......Not exactly, But Staying True to Enough is paramount.

I think It's All the Feels that are bewildering, as I practiced Work, Work, Work for decades as my Drug of Choice to Numb-Up from the Feels. This Impermanence has brought me Front & Center to those "Avoided Feels"

And It Scares Me,

It can be challenging, living consistently in alignment with the call of our soul. Not settling for the mediocrity, or dipping into the shallows that surround us when we crave great ocean waves of being. When I find myself feeling lost, unclear, uncertain possessing an exhaustion that seems to have no source, the question I ask: Did I forget why I came? The joy of the question is that I know the answer before I even ask, but asking it opens the doorway of conscious acknowledgement.

"Not “Why am I here?” Which is befuddling and misleading, but have I forgotten why?" Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman

The egoic mind takes issue with most things and objects to them vehemently. Through its ego-centeredness and inability to see the full picture, it will judge, criticize, and find fault, and due to its limited perspective of life, it must perceive problems.

?“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.

All things break. And all things can be mended.

Not with time, as they say, but with intention.

So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.

The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. -L.R. Knost

Awakened

"In advanced age, my health worsening, I woke up in the middle of the night, and experienced a feeling of happiness so intense and perfect that in all my life I had only felt its premonition. And there was no reason for it. It didn’t obliterate consciousness; the past which I carried was there, together with my grief. And it was suddenly included, was a necessary part of the whole. As if a voice were repeating: 'You can stop worrying now; everything happened just as it had to. You did what was assigned to you, and you are not required anymore to think of what happened long ago.' The peace I felt was a closing of accounts and was

connected with the thought of death. The happiness on this side was like an announcement of the other side. I realized that this was an undeserved gift and I could not grasp by what grace it was bestowed on me." ~~ Czeslaw Milosz

May it be so... for all of us

About Eric

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Eric is an Entrepreneur, and lives a Nomadic Lifestyle and is an OffGrid Practitioner. He is also an Instructor for Melina Emerson Small Biz Lady and an Adjunct Instructor at Drexel University. Eric is well seasoned in urban housing development.

He has built and developed over 14,000 market rate apartments on a national scale. He founded Urbane Apartments in 2000 and oversaw new business, general operations, marketing and branding at the company until retiring in 2021.

He established a proven track record of effectively repositioning existing rental properties in a way that added value for investors while enhancing the resident experience. He also established Urbane Media, a social media marketing and PR laboratory, where innovative marketing ideas are tested. Eric has been featured in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur Magazine and Business Week Magazine.

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