Glorious Spring
“We’re approaching the beauty that is Spring. The sun is glorious and has magical healing power. Let's allow this uplifting light to bring us physical and spiritual health and well-being.” Chloe Taylor Brown, Life Coach, Editor-in-Chief Flourish Digital Magazine @flourishdigitalmagazine
As the air moves into a sweet warm breeze and the promise of spring is near I’m moved to shout “We are resilient!” After a year of being shut in and shook up, a new day blooms all around and within us. Take, for example, my ninety-year-old mother.
We found out in January that Mother had to move from her condo where she had been living for over 10 years. And we are in the middle of a pandemic. Yep. Here I am a life coach but caught in a tsunami of fear and resistance especially on those days after looking at another over-priced micro-sized dump in Santa Cruz, California known for having a housing crisis. Yet, there was mom making calls, sending me Craig’s listings and encouraging me even though when she went with me a couple of times to look at the apartments she could barely walk and couldn’t stand up for more than ten minutes.
I took note and realized that I had something to learn here so I slowed down and tuned in with understanding and care. I asked for help from the universe and at the same time flexed my trust-muscle, the one I had been working on for more than a decade. I bolstered my inner reserves of patience, letting go, and agreeing to be in service to my mother and this big life change. I wondered, could this be something that will be better for her, for me? My intentions cleared from around the rubble of my overwhelm. I wanted my beloved mother to like her space which meant I had to help out with the rent. I wanted to know she would be in a quiet, safe place and I wanted her to be closer to where I lived so I could take care of her.
The next day Mom’s new place popped up on Zillow, a site I hadn’t gone to before. A rush of excitement tingled up my back and burst out through my opened, receptive eyes like the shiny brightness of that magical sun. Within two days we signed the lease. Mother is happily in her new home having made the move with a smile and anticipation for the next chapter of her life living in the quaint Seabright neighborhood just five minutes from my house.
As I left her apartment this Sunday after helping her get settled, I saw the most amazingly beautiful flower in her neighbor’s garden, a species of flower that I had never seen before.
“I believe in the good things comin', comin', comin,' comin, Oh whoa oh whoa.”
Lyrics by Nahko Bear Medicine for the People