Approach

Pema Chodron advises approaching life as if it is one big experiment.  The hang up with this, at times, is that we grown ups can take our experiments extremely seriously and can be devastated by the results.

When I watch my 3 and 5 year old paint or dance or dig it is a different level of experimentation that I admire.  They truly have little attachment to the outcome and have little care for how they look to someone else in the process.  It’s not a show or a recital.  It’s not a piece to be framed or a paper to be disgusted by.  It is a process that is here to participate in and so they DO!  When it turns out all brown and torn from the mix of colors and aggressiveness of the artist, they toss it around and usually laugh at their attempt and move on.  When ‘it’ falls over as they build or they fall over as they dance, they continue on and or move on.

I will try, with more consistency, to approach life as an experiment with child-like enthusiasm and passion.  When it’s time to move on, I will move on.

When it’s time to laugh, let’s just laugh.