Thank you Ronnie Ann,

Best wishes on the unfolding of your new beginnings. I am looking forward to hearing more and celebrating with you.

Big hugs,

Yota

“Hope” is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –”

Thank you for sharing. ~ Ronne Ann

Hello my friend,

Good to have you here. ❤️

Thank you my friend,

Thank you for your kind words and for showing up every single time with an open mind and a full heart. I am deeply grateful for your support and generous presence. Sharing space with you has been rich and fulfilling.

You zoomed into grief and resilience in your comment and it got me thinking. We can’t get to resilience unless we honor our grief. Not doing so can result in denial and escapism, not resilience.

I know this has been a hard but also illuminating year for you. You have managed it all with grace, love, and respect. I hope you can see that. Congratulations on your new direction. Looking forward to watching your success.

With love and hugs right back at you 💜

What a lovely reflection on your journey this past year! I love how you assimilated ALL of the competing aspects of pandemic life- the push/pull of emotions, actions, and experiences. And how amazing that your journey with The Art of New Beginnings happened to “begin” as we went into lockdown. It was meant to be. Not that I’m happy we had a pandemic, but the global crisis forced all of us to pause, look, examine, and search. Things that we took for granted became the treasures. Ways of life we had figured out were upended. Opportunities to try out new things felt more possible than ever because we were in uncharted territories.

With all of the turmoil, there was so much grief. Grief from loss of loved ones, loss of jobs, loss of housing, loss of freedom to go where we wanted whenever we wanted, and loss of life as we knew it. Grief knocks us down into a pile of exhaustion. Grief takes our energy and knocks it silly. But grief also gives us a chance to fully feel our emotions, care for them, and slow down.

Then there was resilience. Every place I turned, I saw others stepping up in incredible ways to help others. And through helping others, their own souls strengthened. I saw people trying new things, building new businesses, or reimagining the ones they had. We learned how to communicate in new ways, where Zoom became the channel of choice. I saw how we let go of the stuff that we had zero control over, and how freeing that was.

Thank goodness you reemerged when you did. Your presence and guidance helped me so much this year. You gave space to process the nuttiness. You gave space to listen, talk, and be with others. You helped us unlock thoughts we didn’t know we inside. And you were there as a wonderful friend sharing poems, insights, books, quotes, images, and your beautiful, loving soul.

I am so deeply grateful to and for you, Yota.

With love and hugs,
Linda