The Gift of the Pause

This is today’s second post. More came through later, so here we are.

There are days when you feel quieter, heavier, or dull.

Whether anything you can think of has anything to do with it or not, there are moments that carry a particular energy.

It is a day of taking care.

We have many days a year, month, week that are gifts of taking care, if we’d recognize them.

Today may feel heavy, dull, or even sad.

There’s plenty going on right now to stir those feelings.

The heaviness is a gift to go slow and maybe lay low.

The Dullness is a gift inviting you to pause — to stop tracking or obsessing over what’s been looping in your mind.

The sadness is a gift to cry, to allow your body its own wisdom, that now is a time to shed what’s not longer valid or working for you, to wash your system clean. 

Before renewal comes destruction.

Endings are not the fearful things they are assumed to be.

They are where beginnings are born.

Let yourself appreciate the gift of fallow times… for the rest before the restoration.

FieldNotes
8/22/25