Daily reflections in March – finding the light of aging ….
Day 1 – I am declaring March 2025 the month I reclaim my heart, soul and spirit. Each day I will post a quote or words from an author I enjoy and learn from. The theme is based on Carol Orsborn and her book Older, Wiser, Fiercer and her reclaiming of the phrase, “Now that I am old ….”
The phrase is one of recognition and realization that the third third of life is rich and filled with wisdom and clarity that we are often robbed because of stereotypes and pressure. This is my quest as I turn toward the light of the full moon that will present itself in this equinox month.
Balance with the earth this month, find your homeostasis, your balance and your equinox as we move into spring. Start with me, join me and comment alongside with me through this 31 days of reclamation! The light is evidence of divine love.
Today’s Quote:
Carol Orsborn (page 14, Older Wiser Fiercer) “I am freshly exposed at this new age and stage of life to be vulnerable as a child who has lost her innocence.”
Head to the light of the moon …. women ignite, grow and burn deep with from your heart centre.
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Day 2 – March is a month where we, here in Ontario begin to believe that spring may come. The weather can ebb and flow from sunny and above freezing and then plunge into the depths of frozen once again. Teasing us the equinox, March 21, reminds us there is a balance beyond the peaks and the valleys.
Today’s quote is from page 30 of Older, Wiser, Fiercer where Carol says, “We experience ourselves to be at the peak of our knowledge and abilities, only to realize that we are masters of a world that no longer exists.” That is a true realization I have made in the past six months. Attending uni and watching the younger students prepare for their lives gaining knowledge and education, as I learn simply for the sake of learning, applying the learning to that lived experience.
Contentment comes from letting go of our expectations. Letting go of our expectations comes with being older, wiser and fiercer in our being as we age. Now that I am older, and as I let go of expectations the contentment I am feeling is tremendous.
Head to the light of the moon …. women ignite, grow and burn deep with from your heart centre.
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Day 3 – It’s Monday! Why does Monday always seem like a good place to start? My mother, based on an old wives’ tale, said one should never start a journey on a Friday. Why again that was said I have no idea. Yesterday, one of the younger students was standing at the stove watching it. I said, “you know a watched pot never boils.” She looked at me totally puzzled. I said, “It’s an old wives’ tale,” and that caused further confusion. Not only had she never heard the old adage, she did not know what an “old wives’ tale” was. So that seems like a good place to start.
Carol Orsborn says (on page 40, Older, Wiser, Fiercer) “Becoming one’s self is not as easy as it seems …” and goes on to say others make it look effortless. I wonder, do they? Are they really their one’s self? How do we know? Lillian Hellman is quoted (Page 55, William Bridges,Transistions) as saying “people change and forget to tell each other”. So that to me is the Monday of our lives, remembering we all start anew sometime.
Is today your day to start anew? As I become more fierce with age, I am changing and I do not need to tell anyone, because the only one that matters is me. If, and when, I am kind, caring and productive, I am not responsible or required to tell anyone else and I can make becoming my best self as easy as I want, or as difficult. Often the finding of else and I can make becoming my best self as easy as I can. It’s Monday. Start today and then pretend every day is Monday and continue to start and start to continue. Head to the light of the moon …. women ignite, grow and burn deep with from your heart centre.
#breakingstibah
#olderwiserfiercer
#breakingstibah 