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What’s in Your Lifeboat?
We are truly at a — possibly the — watershed moment of our lifetimes. A massive inflection point in human history. A threshold across which life will look entirely different, will never be the same.
A threshold teeming with fear and looming with uncertainty.
A threshold from which there is no turning back, only forward.
A threshold which invites us to pause — to come together as one in a Great Collective Pause — and contemplate what to carry across with us in our metaphorical lifeboats and what to leave behind.
Apparently, I’ve been training for this moment for quite some time now. Social distancing has been my way of life since I moved up to West Sonoma County in 2012. Transformation has been an intention and practice since my mom’s suicide on Mother’s Day 12 years ago woke me up to my own deep unhappiness and catalyzed a quest to find joy within. A practice that has intensified and accelerated since the beginning of 2020 — leaving me feeling thrashed by the universal ocean, living my own personal upheaval.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, like a supermassive tsunami in our universal ocean, a global pandemic happened. Suddenly I wasn’t alone in feeling lost and alone.
Feeling completely and utterly disrupted, like my world had simultaneously been turned upside-down and…
