Good morning from my blue chair,

I’ve been scanning back over the year in recent days with my practice development hat on. Yesterday I dropped in to an approach to reflecting on the year 2019 through the lenses of beauty, truth and goodness. I found that writing my way into the questions below shone light on this year for me. So, I’m sharing it here in the hope that it will contribute to the waking up and growing up that we all need to do in these wonderful and terrifyingly tumultuous times.

Carve out some time to reflect on the year 2019. Pull out your calendar to jog your memory if need be. Respond to the prompts below for each month in your journal. So, you will be responding to 6 prompts for each month. (Could take you as long as an hour or so to complete . . . . ) Grandness or intimacy in your answers are all appropriate. I think you will find that specificity gives wonderful depth to the process.

In the month of_________: (You could also take it season by season . . . . )

In what way(s) were you the cause of something beautiful?

Describe a time that you experienced beauty?

In what way(s) did you reveal or speak the truth?

In what way(s) was the truth revealed to you?

In what way(s) were you the cause of goodness?

In what way(s) were you on the receiving end of goodness?

Upon completion, give yourself a little time to let your responses settle. The year end practice I’ll be posting in early December will give you an opportunity to consider any action that all of this may inspire in you.

I hope and trust that you will have as much fun with this one as I have!

Warmly, Lyedie
November, 2019
Putney, VT

Photo credit: Leslie Williams