The Continuum
Every year I do some work with one of my favorite writers. She always asks the most thought-provoking questions. And every year she asks me to pick a word of significance for the coming year.
This year, I picked the word “continuum.” I picked that word to express how I want the coming year to be about sewing back together the different parts of our lives.
It has felt as if so much has come unraveled. And I would really like things to be more raveled.
But that subjective judgement about the world is really within me, and not in the world itself, isn’t that right? Put another way, my feelings about the world are a function of my emotional make-up, and not a function of how the universe is working at the moment. It means that there is something I’m not accepting right now.
The truth is this: the beginning of magic, of any transformation at all, is the utter embrace of what is. Exactly as it is.
What that means, then, is that my word of the year is a wish that I can better embrace this world of ours, as nonsensical as it seems to me sometimes. It’s a wish that I can see, in some way, how all of it fits together, and how I fit within it. The continuum I seek is within me — within us all.
My very best,
Philip