The one most significant achievement today is that the clean laundry is ironed and folded! The day just zoomed by, one minute it was morning and I sat down to do the monthly accounts, next thing it was dark outside - I was so focused on what I was doing today.
There is another cause for celebration today, 1 calendar month of 365 dragons flying solo. My thanks and appreciation to all those that have followed the journey. If I had not recorded so much through this blog, I may have forgotten a lot that has happened this past month.
Throughout life we celebrate the milestones, and their anniversaries. Each year a milestone towards an inevitable end. Then again, each month, each day each moment is a milestone. To bring awareness to as many as we can, it is possible to bring ourselves to now ... this very moment ... to be wrapped in that space of now where it is not seeking to get to some end goal but to be present now. That is the present of life.
I did read a little of the "One" book I received yesterday. Victoria Alexander (who I have since discovered is a Sydney resident) writes " In the record industry a single was cause for celebration, one song released to promote the album. This one track, part of a collective, told the story". This month, I have realised that I may be one, I may be flying solo in my business and personal life but I am deeply connected to many. I am one of many. That many come in and out of my life. One is not a life sentence to loneliness.
As I write this I just realised that in the word "loneliness", the word ONE is fenced in by to L's. Loneliness suggests a separation from, a sense of isolation. At the moment, I do not feel this when I spend days in solitude. As Alexander writes "solitude is a positive and constructive engagement with yourself that leads to self-awareness. From recent months I have learned this to be true. It is also human nature to seek and fulfil our desire for connection.
When we strip away the labels and status symbols, each of us are one. It is the starting point from which everything we each do becomes possible. We can share that privately with ourselves, with one other, with few or with many, and through that sharing we can build connections, so that "one" is not fenced in by a couple of tall imposing "L"s.
Flying Solo Tip 031365 : It all starts with one. One is a cause for celebration.