The Present: July
Sometimes the next right step is to pause. - Octavia Raheem
Hello, and welcome to The Present, the 2023 Flourish Integral Health newsletter. If you find what I am sharing about intentions, joy, and being true to yourself helpful please join and share.
The excitement and the experience of the 21 charming bookstores in 21 days tour has been my inspiration this month, and in some places, seeing a city for the first time.
I’m very much enjoying all this trip is offering and what I’m learning. Traveling to see bookstores in 13 states, processing, doing my best to stay present (and enjoy), and summarizing on Instagram daily is a lot! Fatigue is present after a hard drive from Asheville to Charleston on Sunday (road construction delays and down pouring rain) and longer travel to New Orleans and Boulder (I got in the wrong car in a Boulder parking lot!) so this newsletter on Day 19 is the briefest. I want to highlight the unexpected.
I hoped to write every day. Unexpectedly, I began writing poetry to capture what I’m experiencing outside of what I’m posting. (I wrote one poem earlier this year; prior haiku in school!) Is there something you set an intention for that’s going well, but producing an unexpected result?
Onto Joy
The unexpected again.
What I’ve taking note of on the tour is all the unexpected joy. Some things I was most looking forward to were lovely, but the bigger joy is materializing from the unanticipated. Do you notice that about what creates joy in your life?
Holding space for your joy, your intentions, and being true to yourself.
Best,
Allison