Follow "the Monarch" ...

It's been almost 3 months since I left my job of building cardboard castles, putting 3D puzzles together again, and assisting travelers through the maze of  needs and wants, and walking with them, sharing many experiences and personal knowledge, for minutes at a time

I have missed it, but needed to embark on this  new phase of my life experience for a number of reasons, most of which are personal... art, music, communing with nature, spiritual and physical exercise and such ...

It takes a while to build a new dwelling place while disassembling an old one. Though the time is mostly spent in discarding things, it does take time to know which things to keep and which to send back to the universe from whence they came... spiritually as well as materially speaking...

I've  had to program my subconscious to work behind the scenes to guide me to better foods and ways without conscious effort... It knows what I need better than I do, but this approach is entirely different from the conscious approach, as it is merely picturing certain things and not thinking about how to go about them, just resting and waiting until the methods are worked out and ready to put into play...many of them 'automatically'

There is a lot of sleeping and resting and playing with this and that that go into it..  The body often doesn't want to function well, because it is going through its chrysalis state, as a butterfly does, in a manner of speaking...

In the body and mind there are many little things that begin to  change as the new needs and desires aren't yet in place and working... It's necessary to  exercise them slowly, working in increments, carefully, bit by bit, with conscious awareness, in a relaxed, receptive, mode...

It's like the growth and unfurling of a new seedling... gaining strength, pushing upward, focusing on the sun... to finally be able to do more and bigger things, to blossom and nurture new  shoots, new ideas and manifestations of life experience

It is a rehabilitation of the spirit, mind and body... a revitalizing of the life force as it flows and expresses itself ...

The walk ahead requires a steady gait and strength and agility that have been left to turn to stone for too long... and this requires flexing  the body, the legs, the ankles, right down to the feet and toes, and every muscle, joint, tendon and vein within them... This is the body growing new roots and must be done gently, slowly, a bit at a time, moving them in every direction possible... before taking in the more energetic and active tasks of running, jumping, lifting etc... of  'taking flight'

And these principles are being applied in all areas and aspects of my life experience, body, mind and soul... It is a renewal and  also a new birth ... from the worthwhile things of the past, the seeds, comes the renewed being that is also the new being

So if you wonder what I am doing and why I have seemed to be in seclusion for a while, it's just that I have been working, like the seed in the soil, answering to the elements and the life from 'the son', to come forth again, ready to embark on the journey of this new phase of my life...

as I follow "the Monarch" ever higher, and further...

~ RiverLightRider

* PS ~ I haven't seen A Monarch Butterfly in 20 years, but during this time, just after I wrote this piece, one came out of the blue, flitted up to my car, against my windshield, as if looking in at me, and vanished again...
I had just enough time to take this one photo