Hello and welcome 👋

You're welcome to walk among these words with me as we look at the idea of what it is actually and practically enjoy the small things in our lives. Something I've been ponding in parallel to my other ponders about size matters.

Specially I've noticed a new frequency of feeling the feels of bliss that now finds its way to front of my mind on most given days. Each moment is unremarkable to many and yet to walk passed me in one of these moments (yup, they happen in public often) one would could be right in thinking I'm up to something because of that satisfied smile I wear without obvious reason.

In this ponder that has travelled with me lightly over a couple of months now, it was the brush of a light brush against the palm of my hand feeling my way in the world one unremarkable day that I realised it's not the size but the relationship of said size to its world.

Fast forward through many thoughts thought to land with the now knowing that there is the potential bliss to be had with little to know effort in seemingly small things, but first it's up to us to adapt the world in which the small things can have room to become bigger.

🤯 🤯🤯

(I really wished this little fella was smiling while the mind made a new sense in this moment.)

Yup, all this coming together one Tuesday when you weren't looking (because that would be weird!).

Anyhoooooo, until when, take only what you need and leave the rest for the rest...there's always more than enough to go round.

K.

P.S. Forgive the typed typos as these are the words worded fresh following our conversation and I have no idea where my glasses are 😅 You're invited to go ahead and do as our minds love to do and fill in the gaps 🥰

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You're welcome and invited to join in this conversation conversed without being first rehearsed, where the words of one human human-ing wondered and walked out loud among her words.

In this conversation we look a little at noticing when we are scratching an itch that may or may not be ours. We look at the moment in the middle as less of a mess and more into the idea of the bliss of being between to moments.

To be honest, I'll be listening this one too as there feels like there's something important coming front of mind which only happens when I have sense of starting a conversation with you here.

Until when, I hope, trust, and believe you too will listen loosely and take that which is only your and leave the rest.

K.

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Oh my golly gwosh, the moment many parts come together is one I hope is forever out of the reach of research finding explanation. You're invited to here the response that prompted this unplanned conversation without my glasses.

As I share the experience of thinking deep and deeply thinking a thought through, I share the idea of being deliberate in who you invite to influence your progressive ponder. I knew at some stage I was going to ask this one human a question topic and she delivered, both in guiding me on how many stitches to cast on for my first beanie pattern to her connection to aging older.

As I share, holding the ease collected in the moment she uttered her wisest words without blinking, my plans have already shifted beyond before and have the feels of coming together in the moment wondrous of ways.

So, until when, may your minds be every on your side,

K.

P.S. Book recommendation correction (haha, warned you I didn't have my glasses on 😅) , the beautiful book recommended here is Braiding SWEETgrass (not seagrass...my bad, you're welcome 🤭)

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You're most very welcome to pick our progress ponder about the potential within the words of moving from 'getting older' to realising what we can achieved when we're 'growing older'. In this conversation I share the messy moments of making sense of a universal human experience.

Since sharing last week, the frame of 'growing older' is supporting a growing sense of choice in what is happening to me (and my humans around me experiencing the same in their own human-ing) and really settling in a sense of ease in the ever changing experience.

Words are forever funny to me in how they can shift what we see in a moment and how quickly they can move those mountains back to moment that has already passed by the time we notice it.

Until when, may your day be full of laughter, love, and a lot of living in real-life in real-time.

K.

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Heyya 👋

You're invited to pop in and out of a long ponder in progress. For months now I've been pondering the purpose and potential in growing older and what I can do now for my future me to be stronger.

I say this ponder in progress because deep thinking into thing something to new depths happens with time, space, and effort, so I share the sense of what real-time deep thinking in progress can be.

Aging is a universal experience and it's my intention that by sharing this idea ideating in progress that you and your humans too can grow from this starting suggestion so that we can each grow stronger together.

Soz, getting the feels of leaning into a pumped up pep talking, so I'l pip down and get back to pondering in private.

See you on the other side,

K.

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You're invite to listen lightly (which means while walking, washing the dishes, or while lazily laying back and resting a restful rest). Among these many words (which there are many) I share a recent personal experience with you in mind. As a heads up and to kind to your mind, this conversation is truely what it would be if we were to jump on the phone now and you would just listen as I find myself in a shared moment. It's my hope and trust that you too will find yourself in on part of this conversation and you will become curious, you will find something to resolve, dissolve, and evolve to be a new experience in your experience.I know, pretty flippin' ambitious for a 30 minute convo, but hey, let's shoot passed the stars to land on our feet from here.Until when, may your human-ing be kind and curious in your days and ways,K.

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You're invited to walk among a collection of words working to focus the focus between now and the year of that begins from here. It's here I offer both an alternative way to focus your focus from a single words, or to leverage our love of threes to choose your priorities (two ways of achieving the same thing through your words).

P.S. You’re seeing me stretching my comfort zone in real life and real time through sharing a new media here. Like you’ve come to expect on the Especially on Tuesday Podcast, no edits, just a straight up chatty Kathy.

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In the last conversation, I intended to share another view to frame our focus on something...and then my mind took us elsewhere. So here it is, a conversation shared for you to consider in your new years resolution-ing.

As always, and to be expected, it's a little clunky, chucky, and packed with an idea coming into clarity.

Please remember to take that which lands with you new and leave the rest.

K.

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You're invited to walk among my meaning being made in real life in real time through the words I'm actually already using. Sharing with you the mess of the middle before the moment it all comes together.

It's here I share and narrate a part of my experience as I make meaning live for the purpose of illustrating one way we can direct our focus and support real change in real time.

Soz, and you're welcome, for the moments of the unscripted parts that get real personal (and I didn't plan to share). As these conversation are not edited (at all!) it's my trust you will see that once we hear one part, the others want a say too.

Please remember to take that which is yours and leave the rest.

K.

P.S. For those who need it, 'posit' is said to have been born in the Latin realm and is connected the positioning and placing of something.

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Walk among my words as I share something seemingly silly and yet it makes perfect sense. I share a continuing shift that is very personal, very personable, and all the way human.

In this conversation I share a part of my recent realisation that I was keeping myself stressed because I was scared of feeling the internal experience of calm. That's right, I have learned to be so good at being stressed that it was scary to not be stressed (aka calm).

This is a lot more normal than many know to word this way yet, a kind of a better the devil we know kinda thing.

Please listen loosely and take that which is yours and leave the rest.

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