Wide Open Space

Wide Open Space
This morning I was cleaning my kitchen. I took everything off of my island, well it’s probably more of a peninsula than an island, but you know what I mean – a big flat surface that extends out into a kitchen designed to make the creation of food easier. Anyway, I shined that surface up and got ready to put the stuff back in place – my snowman cookie jar, my antique crock of cooking utensils, my cutting board, a candle, etc. and I stopped and just looked at that shiny surface. It was wide-open space. Wide-open space, just like wide-open time nourishes us – provides us with a forum for creation. So I leave my house to go out into the world leaving my peninsula free from its usual busyness. I can feel it smiling at me. : )

It’s like when I gave away most of my possessions nearly a year and a half ago and sat in the emptiness. The Indianapolis Star came to do a story on Feng Shui and photographed me sitting on the floor in my dining room without furniture. I remember how the initial uncomfortable openness transformed into the possibility of a life ready to be born anew.

So I guess I’m sharing this because I’m passionate about wide openness – in our minds and in our hearts and in our space . . . so that new creations can be born.

Where in your life can you remove the obstacles, the busyness so the unencumbered can be realized?