🧵 Thursday Thread: What ordinary things feel holy to you lately?
Not capital-H Holy. Just tender, charged, luminous. Let's dig deep and make a big beautiful collage of human noticings
We’ve just launched our Essay in Twelve Steps intensive and wow!!! What an incredible beginning as we begin the work of coming into our bodies, back to our senses, and working to genuinely perceive and articulate the world and the things in it as it is and they are, not as we think it is and they are! I call these precisely articulated noticings shimmers and shards, and the ones I’m seeing so far are outstanding.
Make sure, if you haven’t already, to take a tour through the comments on yesterday’s post to see the extraordinary things people are perceiving and sharing. It’s a beautiful start. And if you haven’t shared yet but kind of want to, I encourage you to go for it. It’s a very supportive group and I notice some people are sharing more than one set of shimmers and shards, which I love, because in actuality this is a practice I strongly recommend as a daily one for writers.
Anyway, I figured now that we’re all coming into our senses and paying such close attention, it would be interesting to see what’s changing, if anything, including …
What ordinary things feel holy to you lately?
For me, I’ve got to say light. Maybe because there’s still so little of it here in the north. But light—the way it moves across a room, the way it shifts through the day, the way it interacts with shadows to form a kind of theater. Light is ordinary, but it’s so so holy.
What are your thoughts?
Love,
Jeannine
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