The Quiet Field

“It isnt the sound of what you always heard that moves you now, it is the move that finds the sound”

There is a season in life
when the noise fades.

The children grow.
The work softens.
The house grows quieter
than it has ever been.

And in that quiet
something unfamiliar appears,

space.

At first it feels like loss.
Like something has ended
and nothing has taken its place.

But look closer.

This is not emptiness.

It is a field
after harvest.

The rows are bare.
The soil rests.
The air holds its breath
between seasons.

Nothing is growing yet.

But everything
is possible

Reflection

Many people reach this stage of life and believe something is wrong with them.

They feel slower.
More reflective.
Less certain about what comes next.

Society sometimes calls this depression.
But very often it is something else entirely.

It is the moment when life stops pushing you forward
and quietly asks you to choose your direction for yourself.

For the first time in many years, the calendar is not filled by necessity.
The path is not already drawn.

This can feel frightening.

But it can also be the beginning of the most authentic chapter of a life.

Tomorrow : we’ll explore a question many people quietly ask at this stage of life:

If I am no longer defined by the roles I carried for decades… who am I now?

-Kerri-Elizabeth-

What do you see?

Are you someone that sees more of what’s ahead than what’s in front of you?

Balancing seeing ahead and being present are all part of loving every moment too…..right?

This path is one with many twist and turns, healing and failing, falling and bouncing, looking up and down and side to side wondering in moments , are you really present or dreaming ahead.

All are necessary and all require you to be there, just because your dreaming ahead doesn’t mean your not present, it means your presently dreaming ahead.

The most important part is, are you aware that’s what you’re doing? There is where presence requires more of you.

So dream ahead with intention.

Feel at a depth that grows you.

Receive at a depth that knows you.

Learn at a depth that shows you.

Believe at a depth that restores you.

And love every moment that calls you, just be aware of how long you visit.

Do you think you spend more of your day aware or going through the motions of life more unaware?

Can you share your thoughts on this?