Dear Diary; The Story of Our Lives

On Saturday afternoon we were in a stationers… Anadi was spending lots of money on items for his business and getting some forms printed off; while he was engaging with the store keeper I had spied two little notebooks! One blue and one purple…

The thing that I enjoying buying more than anything in the world, are notebooks… They bring me great joy – I had to limit this habit as a nomad!

I picked up the two little books and placed them on the counter…

Anadi had come to the end of his list and was about to settle up…

‘These too please’ I proffered 

The proprietor waved his hand ‘It’s fine, you can have them’ he said…

Anadi chatted a bit more and completed his card transaction and as we were leaving I turned back to the vendor… ‘And thank you so much for my notebooks’

He nodded and smiled and then said ‘I hope you will use them productively…’ 

Do I use my notebooks productively….?

I know that they always feel to be the conduit of possibility, new routes, ideas… 

The opportunity to travel the road less travelled…

Sometimes they record my clients lives and dreams, their confusions and struggles – the books seem to have magic properties all of their own – of sorting and settling and diving deep into the soul of the person, connections and insights, clarity emerging from the pages…

Sometimes they record my inner world, my own insights, my silence, my freedom, my inner journey…

Sometimes they hold the very fabric of my external world together, with lists of things to be done, people to contact, errands to be run, items to be bought… 

But for me always, they hold all the possibility that the blank page holds.

A fresh canvass on which to make anything up at all…

Our life in each moment, the script being written as we go…

Always new

If we want it to be…

Or are we going to write down the old familiar lines, the ones we have almost learned by heart and in truth don’t need to write down anymore in our new notebook with its blank page of promise…. 

On the blank page of possibility what do we want to make possible in our lives now…?

The magic notebook will reveal the dream and then the dream can begin to unfurl…

Once we have thought something our energy starts to move towards that outcome…

Which is why it is important that we start to become aware of what we are feeling, and what we are thinking, in each moment…

What are we writing in the notebook of our lives…?