Reflections:
While cleaning out my email inbox yesterday, I was blown away by the many connections I have. I am loved, cared for, and blessed with many friends and loving souls in my life.
Each of my four personal email addresses has a different focus. Initially, I am cleaning my writing email account. With this address, I share my writing, save ideas, and foster new writing projects. Trying to clean up this email address is tedious and time consuming; I never knew I had so many ideas that I saved, quotes that I collected, or dreams that I processed. I really never knew.
I also never knew that most of my creative friends are quick to offer cooking ideas, beautiful songs, and sweet stories. My creative/writing email is full of love, there are so many people in my life that give unselfishly of themselves. At this moment, I am humbled that people nurture me as they do. Writing in a vacuum isn’t possible. When you share of your art, your writing, or your soul, people want to share of themselves too!!!
There are so many days, I feel alone in my little creative bubble. What I learned last night is that while I may sometimes feel alone, there are many people that are there for me. Patient individuals that are content to be a part of my life in any way that they can. I am blessed to be surrounded by loving and thoughtful individuals that love me or care for me as the person I am; they value my creative energy and make sure I know that they are there.
Blessing flags represent what my friends give:
Love, Compassion, Loving-kindness, Peace,
Healing, Honor, & Justice
This fair-trade flag that can be purchased at http://fairtradejudaica.org/product/jewish-blessing-flags/; each flag represents what I found in my inbox last night. Every email was filled with so many of the blessings above. My friends love not only me, but life and humankind too; they are generous people that walk gently in the world and give unselfishly.
Cleaning up my inboxes is proving to be more challenging than I expected.
The good news is that while I might not empty all 5,000 by next week, I now have approximately 200 less emails in my inbox than I did after yesterday morning’s purge. Between yesterday morning and last night’s email purge/file experience, I am down a total of approximately 500 emails and 200 spams. Yay!
Slowly, slowly – I am working towards my goal for less clutter in the email realm.
