A year ago, I completed a home makeover downstairs of my 2-story townhouse in Florida. I painted everything white, the ceilings, the walls and trim. I replaced flooring with a white neutral tone. I recovered my sofa in white, and I purchased my dream Lazy Boy Recliner in the perfect color of blue.
I strategically placed my recliner in front of my French doors overlooking my patio garden. I have a pop-up coffee table so eating, drinking, writing all come with ease and great comfort. My recliner is where I am in control of the “ART” of Being and not doing. A quiet surrender to just sit in peace.
The ART of Being is a practice that is out of the usual programming of this time, space, reality in the three dimensional of 2026. Part of this practice is meditation, sitting in the quiet, observing nature, observing the moon, stars and tides and getting into the “feeling state”.
Now a year has passed with me sitting in the chair. I gained some weight, contemplated how best to change myself and life, struggles with my ego mind and have arrived to a place of peace and gratitude for the “Hero’s Journey” of my story.
In rest and reflection, I have thought about the “reverse bucket list”. The idea of contentment, satisfaction and fulfillment with the “is” ness of now. There is nothing I must DO, rather it is known and practiced to step back, align with Higher Self, and BE at peace before making a decision, move, or taking courageous actions in word or deed.
I can pause and enjoy, even get stuck in the “was”ness. The past and memories of stages of developments as a woman in the modern world from 1959 to 2026 and beyond. It has been 66 years of time travel and Doing. It is a good long story of an immigrant child, maiden in a foreign land, dedicated life to a career guided by indoctrination of the The Equal Rights Amendment, which my Mom participated in “protest” in Wahington DC with many other thousands of women.
Our home was an atheist, liberal, and culturally stuck in Hungary. My parents had escaped tyranny. That was the story that was told and our family was “free’ in America.
The story the way it was experienced was not of “freedom” rather of compliance. For me, an American Woman it was to go to school, get a college education, get a job, raise a family all at the same time. The modern life required Being superwoman and Doing it all.
And I did. School, college, marriages, children, grandchildren, jobs, travel, military duty and deployments, accidents, mishaps, active caregiver for both parents, and many moves. All the messiness of Life on planet earth.
In reflection I make self-inquiry; How do I see, feel, BE it differently now? What is the case for “expansion”? Shall I just stay comfortable in my beautiful, blue Lazy Boy recliner by the garden? Why would I not?
I feel a strong call to purposeful, fearless action. I am asking in meditation and prayer, what am I to know from these recent experiences? The restless ego mind wants to fix and solve problems. My Higher Self is suggesting a time to BE, to shine my light, to commune, to create, to spend time with family and dear friends and co-creators in what is next for the greater good of all.
To my enemies, lost friends, disenfranchised family members, past lovers, and delightful acquaintances, I bid you farewell with great gratitude for all the drama, heartache, pain, broken relationships and opportunities to see your precious unique self. You were and continue to BE a beautiful mirror and offer opportunity to practice heart coherence.
The time has come for me to make a move, make a play and BE creative. As I leave the comfort of my recliner, my garden, my beach house and this first chapter of retirement, I am finessing the ART of Being rather than Doing.
This is the gift of my beautiful blue recliner. I have savored the quiet, sorting thoughts, memories, intentions, successes, failures. I sat in sadness and “the dark side” and asked for Divine intervention.
My peace and sacred self-care happened while sitting with gratitude, asking for help as I gazed at the beautiful garden I created over 27 years. The gardens are a creative ART form, a dance with nature and the sacred. It is a dimension to commune with ancestors, dragons and elementals. My gardens are my art form and a sacred place to commune.
On the horizon of the next chapter, I feel anxious, questioning, uncertain and excited. I am trusting and willing to engage, to risk, to shine, to lead and to evolve.
Bring it on! I am ready to BE, represent, stand for the HIGHEST good for myself, my family, my community, my city, my state, my country, my world, and our universe.
Join me as I continue to build a community in the private sector. The Ministry of Healing Arts, a community dedicated to Unity, Medical Freedom, Informed Consent, Sovereignty, and Regenerative Health Practices.
United WE Stand in the AGE OF AQUARIUS!
