11/01/2026
🕯️
Reading through a magazine on new beginnings (), I came across this quote from Emy Spekschoor (researcher University of Humanistic Studies).
It speaks to be, just like Rumi’s poem The Guest House that I have been teaching for years to my Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction groups.
It’s been a time of change for me, and changes to change. I guess I thought it would be confined to the borders of the calendar year but it turns out the turmoil just continues and doesn’t listen to conventional time. 🙃
And as much as my personal situation is challenging and destabilising, I also realise that pushing certain pf those experiences away from this metaphorical table isn’t going to work.
Acceptance never stops. It arrives, it passes by, then it returns simply wearing another set of clothes or flashing a different hairdo. But there’s always more acceptance ahead…
“Brace yourself”
No, just kidding. Keep your table set abundantly. Offer each experience a place to sit. No need to brace. I think bracing yourself makes it harder. Messier. Certainly not easier. And this is just as much a note to self as perhaps a helpful reminder for you.
Because duh, I don’t for a second think I am alone in this. 🫂
🥂 “To a welcome for each and every guest arriving. Perhaps staying briefly, perhaps overstaying their welcome. But welcome, welcome.”
