Pioneers

Celebrating Our One Year Anniversary!

I just wrote a post for one of my other blogs on the subject of happiness and my relationship with my daughter.

photo by: Robert Anschutz  

Our experiences in life are woven together.  For example, my experience with my daughter this week affects what I bring to this circle of women this week, as does my level of satisfaction with my work life, and whether I’ve gotten enough exercise this week, enough rest, and enough time to recharge, whatever those things are for me, particularly.

I expect each one of us in circle are juggling and managing between meetings, and I so look forward to each time we come together to experience how the weaving together of experiences will play out after being apart and making individual progress.  Coming together again as continually expanding individuals committed to personal growth, we get to experience a pretty rare phenomenon; rapid expansion.

It can sound scary.  It can feel intimidating.  We face resistance of the unknown.  We move together into uncharted territory, and we’ve gone down dead ends.  We find our way together.  It’s a choice.  It’s not for everyone.  You have to be willing to sometimes sacrifice the comfort of routine for progress.  For the pioneers who headed west in covered wagons, they didn’t welcome the rocky bed at night or the illnesses along the way, but they were determined to explore and to move into the new.  They were committed to change and to creating a better life.

We may not be enduring physical hardship, and we may not be circling up covered wagons, but we come together in a circle at regular intervals and we have declared a common journey and a desire to travel together.  We may not always like each other.  We may not always understand each other.  We may not always trust everyone in the circle.  And still, we are there for each other.  We are a community.  

Some of us started this journey a year ago and others have joined along the way.  Some have left the circle to pursue other journeys and we miss them and remember them with love.