This post is being filed in my category for off-topic Musings. I’m sixty today, and the feels I’m feeling today are taking me by surprise. The wheel of life isn’t just creaking on this revolution – it’s nearly kicking and screaming with resistance.
Why? The wheel is going to turn whether I resist it or not. I know this. The fact that the world keeps turning even in the face of grief or disaster is one of the constants about life that I have always loved. Even if it is a love-hate relationship. It’s one of the very few constants of life.
Love
The ability life demonstrates, to go on in the face of everything else going on, no matter what, is a virtue. This place is where hope and trust lives. It’s where solutions to problems bubble to consciousness. Where opportunities arrive. But getting there requires a tremendous leap of faith, involves a terrifying freefall if you’re coming from the place of resistance.
Hate
At the same time, as an observer and participant in this thing called life, the relentless march is a stark reminder of the limited time we all have to get the things of our lives done. And this is where anxiety lives. Where stress and cortisol levels rise. It’s where despair takes root and gains ground with the fertilizer of fear.
Releasing Resistance to the Wheel of Life
Resistance is futile.
So, here I go into a new decade that marks a definitely-greater-than-halfway point. My goal from here on out is to embrace the unknown, to give up the need for control, and trust that the Universe will keep on doing it’s thing.
And that I’ll figure out how to find the rhythm and fall in step.
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Madison Woods is the pen-name for my creative works. I’m a self-taught artist who moved to the Ozarks from south Louisiana in 2005. My paintings of Ozark-inspired scenes feature lightfast pigments from Madison county, Arkansas. My inspiration is nature – the beauty, and the inherent cycle of life and death, destruction, regeneration, and transformation.
Roxann Riedel is my real name. I’m also salesperson for Montgomery Whiteley Realty. If you’re interested in buying or selling in Madison or Carroll county, AR, let me know! You can see the properties that I blog about at WildOzarkLand.com.
Wild Ozark is also the only licensed ginseng nursery in Arkansas. Here’s the link for more information on the nursery
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