What a difference a year makes

by Richard Reeve on June 25, 2009

in @CCSeed

IMG01242-20090623-1242It’s a few weeks shy, but the geography is right.  It was while visiting DC last July that I launched into this space.  Bush was limping out of town.  The Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac scandal had seized the town.  The depth of the economic crisis was starting to take root in our collective consciousness, but the circus of the presidential campaigns provided ample distraction.  I was deeply affected by a homeless encampment under a train bridge literally less then one hundred yards from the main stage of the huge conference I was attending just down the block from the U.S. Treasury.  Walking for blocks beside the Department of Agriculture I began to recognize the scale of our bureaucracy.

This year the beltway is gripped by the uprising in Iran and the talk of health care reform.  Each of the Senate Offices I visited while doing some advocacy with NATSAP was swamped with the bustle of the machine.  With the July 4th recess approaching an implosion of work just got dropped in their laps of all the aides.  Most where still smiling.

As I consider my own journey this lap around the sun I’m struck how focused I’ve been able to remain.  I started this blog last July with the simple post Ever Anew:

Ever anew, the demand for commitment. When I learnt reading Sylvia Brinton Perera that Queen Maeve’s challenge to her chosen was name the three deepest desires of your heart (and here’s the kicker) in the next breath!, it was then I knew I had yet to get serious with my practice, my posture, or my life.
It took about six weeks to clarify and prepare myself for that eventual ordeal.  Since then, my entire life path has changed and the doors are opening by themselves…
A year later, while DC continues to grind under the pressures of the nation, things have greatly changed with my practice, my posture and my life.  What has unfolded here and across these platforms has been a major part of it.  And walking through the seasons, at each doorway connected to this path, as I knocked, it opened.  Likewise, when distracted, where I knocked, those doors remained locked.
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  • Zoe
    And what a lap you've traveled. I think this is something we must constantly gaze into and negotiate -- I feel that it was only recently I made strong steps forward in grasping the desires of my heart, but already I feel compelled again to sit down and chart new branches and new connections unveiled.

    This post resonates with me for another reason, which is that I'm coming up on my one-year blogging mark too. I started about 2 weeks after you, and reading this post pushed me to step back and join you in marveling the differences that have unfolded in a year. It's pretty magical.
  • One of the signs for me that says I've made that grasp: the energy is there to do the work. No questions asked. All "parts" are on board and rowing hard...
  • Jeb
    What a great post Richard. You've identified something that I firmly believe and have faith in...namely, that living in accordance with your purpose, staying true to who you are, is the ultimate skeleton key to the Universe. Doing so simply delivers the world to you.

    Bridging the gap between knowing and believing, and actually living in such a way that honors that knowledge, is my highest goal. You provide a truly inspiring example for me in that regard, so I'm very grateful for that. And I'm so happy to see you thriving.
  • It's amazing to me Jeb, that after all the time and effort, and the many people that had been in this space when I began...when I look over, you are still there. It means the world to me. Know that.
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