Day 28 : Weekly Reflection
Connection as the antidote to despair and apathy.
This week, I made an effort to connect with friends, family, my body, the earth, my inner artist, and the very real grief that is present within and around me.
Turning away from what’s here, only leads me further down the path of feeling alone and helpless.
THIS WEEK’S HAPPENINGS:
- The Artist’s Way Week 9
- Daily shares in the Spiral Library
- Freelance design projects
- Dinner and a movie with a friend
- Zoom call with a friend
- Lunch with my aunt
- Saturday at Loyly (Sauna time + a Facial)
- Daylight saving time ended into the dark we go
GLIMMERS:
- Smiling at strangers while out walking in the sunshine.
- Time spent with friends in person and virtually. Moments that remind me how deeply connected we all are and how loved and supported too.
- Running through the rain with delighted children on Halloween night. Sorting candies into piles to be traded and kept and given away.
- A new board game, laughing and giggling and so much joy on a Sunday afternoon.
This sweet one, wearing a sweater knit for her by her great-grandmother.
1. What felt energizing, satisfying, or alive this week?
Being in the presence of dear friends and sweet family. How much my soul seems to be yearning for more and more and more connection and how grateful I am to give myself permission to reach for it without needing to show up in any particular or polished or “ready” way.
The warmth of the Loyly sauna and a facial that transported me to someplace deeply restful. I felt renewed and nurtured and happy, thank you, more please.
Megan’s powerful words, shared in her newsletter:
“We're being called to provide the food security, stability, and support that we long associated with the government. It's up to us now…To provide support to others when you have plenty is to simultaneously provide emotional support to the part of yourself that has previously known the unmet pangs of hunger, or has an intergenerational or collective wound around food insecurity…I am envisioning a world in which all beings are fed with the abundant resources that exist.”
2. What felt draining, forced, or out of sync?
The painful contradictions, blatant cruelty, and lack of care present in the world right now. It’s a deep grief to witness people with more than they will ever need making decisions that will drastically affect those with so little to spare. How bizarre it is that at the same time, children walk door to door to receive free candy, while others are being denied support for life-sustaining food.
Also, still staying up too late and not caring for my body as well as I’d like.
3. What do I want to remember or carry forward?
All the people who are showing up for one another, for community care, love, and hope. My heart breaks in pieces in the daily ups and downs of the despair, and then the incredible love and care that rises to meet it. We are a strange species, but the deep well of love is undeniable and far more powerful than the hate.
Also, how much I love Yoko Ono! So fun to rediscover this and excited to let this influence continue to inspire.
These trees!!! The colors! Oh, how I love this season so. And soon enough, they will all be naked.
EXPRESSIONS OF OCTOBER 2025 — TINY DAILY PAINTINGS:
A full month! Truly so so glad to find my way back to this practice.
LISTENED TO: This podcast episode with Kening. And this playlist while driving to school. We’re all in with the Autumn content, though we have yet to watch You’ve Got Mail… maybe this coming week.
WATCHED: Good Fortune (movie), which I liked more than expected. Upload (show), which feels uncomfortably close to reality, not unlike Good Fortune. Both stayed with me after watching, for better or worse.
