Channeling

 When a word catches your attention, it's meaning says "this should be considered more deeply, more fully," there's a wonderful thing that starts to happen. It reappears in other contexts. It seems to be like a gnat that comes by and then disappears, but only to reappear later. Bothersome. But perhaps that's just because you really need to do something about it. Built a gnat catching hotel for it. (whisper that a bowl of old fruit skins with a piece of plastic wrap stretched across and a few holes punched will entice your tiny friends into their own happy capture.) For the word "channeling" I just sit and wait.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others”― Martha Graham

Another quote goes with helping us through traumas, like floods, accidents, fires, political destructions. 

Opening to that which is most naturally myself, then healing the structures which have been damaged.

That's where my thoughts this foggy morning are.

Getting clarity. Letting go. But still doing householder's tasks. I threw out the pretty nectarine which suddenly bloomed with a big patch of mold on one side, the side I hadn't been looking at. Fuzzy greenish grey says "danger, beware, do not breathe the spores which emanate from me."

Meditate on what is most healthy. I am just part of the whole that is.