Hello Delightful You,
How are you, my friend?
I’m thinking of you on this Friday afternoon and wanted to reach out.
I hope you are having a good day so far. If you are, please share your joy with someone. A smile or a cheerful hello text can go a long way toward brightening someone’s day.
If you are having a hard time, practice reaching out to someone you love and trust. We all go through ups and downs and by talking about it, it helps normalize it for everyone.
Please know, you are loved and you belong!
Celebration does not always look glittery and cheery. Sometimes celebration is the quiet way we care for ourselves or someone we love who is struggling.
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If you listened to Sunday’s audio LoveGram, you know that I was sharing some ideas about how to be with ourselves when we are going through hard stuff.
If you missed it, you can listen here.
I want to remind you of something I shared:
It is so important to let ourselves feel the hard stuff and to remember that it is human to feel the whole spectrum of emotions. It is okay. We are okay. And we do not need to go through things alone. Ask for help.
I meant to read you a poem by my dear friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on Sunday’s audio. When I realized that I forgot, I promised you I would send it this week.
Here it is.
I hope it comforts and soothes. I hope it reminds you that everyone goes through darkness and that we find ways, like my friend Rosemerry did, to navigate the grief.
Why I Stay Up Late Walking
At night I walk. Because
it is easier then to not
be my story. Easier to be
more flesh and less brain.
Easier to be the one
who is gathered into
the field of darkness
by night’s great hands
and planted there.
Because sometimes
rain and sometimes wind
and sometimes stars
and always the world
so much larger than I,
so much vaster
than a small room
with a narrow doorway
and a tale relentlessly sad.
I walk not so much from,
but not so much to—
more that I walk through—
my ribs and lungs
becoming ladder rungs
that form a path
between earth and sky,
and I am more breath
than blame, more step than
shame, more now than why.
— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
A Hundred Falling Veils (3-25-24)
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I send you love today, my friend.
You are not alone.
We’re all in this together.
We are all just walking each other home, as Ram Dass said so beautifully.
Thanks for who you are and for your beautiful spirit.
Seek celebration — even in the dark corners,
xo Sherry
P.S. I especially like the line, “I walk not so much from,
but not so much to—more that I walk through…” It reminds us all to let ourselves be with everything as we navigate it. We don’t need to rush away from hard stuff. We can be kind and gentle with ourselves. We can let ourselves be held by the world.Â