“It strikes me that the redwoods have accomplished, without effort or ego, what I have struggled so hard to do. They make existence, as I conceive of it—time measured in hundred-day increments—seem laughably naïve and nearsighted. I feel so tiny and rootless in their midst. Right now, I am no redwood. I am a speck, a spore surfing the breeze, directionless and susceptible, blown any which way, without the faintest clue about where I’ll land….(p. 304)”
“Gazing up at the Milky Way, I remember when all I wanted is what I have in this moment. Sitting on the kitchen floor of my old apartment, sicker than I’d ever felt, my heart fractured into ten thousand tiny pieces, I needed to believe that there was a truer, more expansive and fulfilling version of my life out there. I had no interest in existing as a martyr, forever defined by the worst things that had happened to me. I needed to believe that when your life has become a cage, you can loosen the bars and reclaim your freedom. I told myself again and again, until I believed my own words: It is possible for me to alter the course of my becoming.“
Suleika Jaoaud, Between Two Kingdoms (Page 304 and 324) retrieved from https://movemequotes.com/suleika-jaouad-quotes-from-between-two-kingdoms/
Invitation: “…reclaim your freedom.”
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"I told myself again and again, until I believed my own words: It is possible for me to alter the course of my becoming.“ Suleika Jaoaud
It is possible. Thank you Circles of Courageous Commons for this reflection and the invitation to "reclaim freedom." Yes, at age 70, to reclaiming my freedom into who I am becoming in this new chapter of my life.