When Home Changes

Though I’m off traveling a lot outside Alaska, I have not yet found another place that feels so much like home. I’m in touch with my Alaska friends and keep an eye on the headline news from the state. Recently, I’ve heard firsthand about the drought and heat in Southeast and the smoke everywhere, and read about fires in the Arctic, melting glaciers, distressed marine life, severe state budget cuts, political dysfunction, and more. This morning, I saw a picture of one of the beautiful wetland spots in Juneau that has been bulldozed for development. It is near the airport and I recall with gratitude the beauty it gifted me as I left for travels and greeted me with on my return.

So much is changing, often in ways that do not feel welcome or comfortable. It is a great time to be using the tools of Access Consciousness®. I’m so grateful to have them. So much else is possible that we have not yet fully chosen or created. Or perhaps we have and are just impatient for it to actualize. (Remember the tool “It never looks the way you think it will.”) 

Wherever we’re at in the process, I know even greater is possible. We can create ourselves and our world and the way we are with each other and the earth to be something unfathomably different than what we are experiencing now. We have that choice. Will you choose it?

For now, I am asking “What is the beauty beneath this?”, “What else is possible?”, “How does it get any better than this?”, and clearing judgments of right and wrong, perceiving into new spaces of communion, moving my body more, laughing and choosing to be happy.