This year, I’ve learned a great deal about being calm, which is not something I knew much about for most of my life. I have learned to focus on what I call points of calming.
I pay attention to the things I care about and that have meaning for me, and I shut out the anger and judgment and poison of the outer world. Emma’s wonderful photos of Robin, her daughter, and my granddaughter have helped to calm me, and I turn to them at those points in the day when I want to settle and feel grounded.
I got another in this series of beautiful and iconic photos today, and I have the feeling that through them, I am getting to really know my daughter in a different way. That in itself is calming.
Patience is the ability to be calm no matter what, to be light in the heart.
How cute this photo of your granddaughter is!
I could relate so well to this, Jon. Being calm is a skill I had to learn. There are many sage and wonderful teachers of calm, if we but look around. It is a gift to be able to choose it as a response, especially in the midst of what can feel like rising panic or fear.