My Sunday List
July 06, 2025 || The twenty-seventh weekend of 2025 (we passed the halfway mark) || The moon is in Scorpio, possibly bringing a day of heightened emotions and potential for conflict
Words
I don’t know what Art is but I know some things it isn’t when I see them. —Georgia O’Keeffe
Music
All Things Must Pass by George Harrison.
There are times when only one album will do, and it’s this one. I wanted to hear it first thing when I got up this morning—it just suits the mood. George is my favorite Beatle for more than a few reasons and his spirituality is high on that list. All Things Must Pass is a perfect album, and dare I say better than anything the other lads did on their own.
PS—the solo on “Something” is my favorite ever played. I had a black DuoJet for a few years—just like the one Harrison played. It was too much guitar for me but I enjoyed playing it a little while I did.
Joy
Seeing a beautiful bee on the bee balm in the front yard. I’m so glad he stopped at my house—that’s why I planted the flowers.
Pollinators, Bee Balm, and a bee bath Waking up to Sam, who is almost a year old.
Coming across this beautiful deer with John Henry on our walk yesterday. She was interested in the sounds he was making but not scared.
Radnor Lake, Middle Tennessee
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
Inspiration Card For the Week
This one is from Tasya van Ree’s the Untamed Elemental deck.
SUN.
Divine Service. As the star at the center of our solar system, a fiery traveler of timeless confidence and force, Sun unifies the planets through gravity and light, illuminating and supreme, he devours the shadows. His circulating heat is all-powerful and offers the understanding that to honor the divine within and all around us, we must all serve.
Sun reveals that by giving undivided attention to your inner luminosity, you free it to shine outward, illuminating the way for others. This is the way of life—we evolve to serve. Just as Sun’s light serves all life on Earth, your light serves all whom you know. Continue to invigorate your inner light so that you become a pharos of clarity and wisdom. This is not a purely selfless path. As you offer your service, its radiating warmth is reflected back by all who benefit, and you are remunerated in multiples.
In essence, serve from a place of wholeness.
Interesting that I drew this one as I’m feeling the squeeze of responsibility these days. One day I will long to be needed, but it is human nature to buck and rear at too much time spent in the yoke, particularly when you’re pulling solo. This too shall pass. And I will underline the note I’ve already made to myself to figure it out—that making yourself a priority thing.
Gratitude
The warmth of the sun. Despite the discomfort it sometimes causes us, it gives everything life. It brings everything to life, including us.
What has come before. I’m as caught up in the modern world as anyone is. But when I think of this experience in a historical or cosmic way, I’m grateful that our forebears were so smart. A lot of trial and error has to happen before progress is made. Let us not forget that. It’s a world of instant gratification now—I still remember a time when waiting on something was just part of life—but we still have to learn before we master.
You. I missed writing last week. It just never happened, despite my best intentions. Thank you for being here and applauding my attempts to stay connected. I get so many notes from y’all sending love and support. That we’ve been able to create this community is so cool! I don’t ever take for granted that my words have a place to land and that it’s friendly territory.
Desires
It will be an unfulfilled desire because it is impossible, but I’d like to create more time in my life. Just a little space. A lot less clutter. A lot less days spent in administration of life jail—chat bots that are supposed to help, press 666*wtf to access the XYZ of your three last dogs’s names—it’s too much sometimes. The passwords, the sign up for this and that. I really appreciate that y’all allowing me to send you emails, because email is tyranny. How much of our lives do we give away to the act of d e l e t i n g crap we don’t want to arrive in the first place? Thank you for keeping me around.
Living in this moment is enough. I desire to soak it up, be right here, and know that I will never see this day again. I can’t wait to find out how I feel twenty years from now. I hope I look back and think I did okay but that I still had so much to learn. I hope I continue to surround myself with people who teach me the things I need to know. And I pray for the wisdom to listen more than I speak. I desire to know I am here.
Prayer
Let me be good. Let me remember to talk to you and hear what you have to say to me. Let me value your divine knowing over anything and everything else, over anyone and everyone’s opinion. Let me be choosy about the counsel I seek. Let me be loyal, kind, and compassionate to my friends and family. Let me use good judgment and strength of character in every moment. Let me never forget that each breath is a gift from you, from this universe, from the miracle that is this moment of perfect combustion. Let me be strong in my faith. Let me receive inspiration. Most of all, let me love and be loved.
Intention for the week to come
May I be the best version of myself at every opportunity.
May I be patient. May I be kind.
May I have self-awareness.
May I clear clutter from my life.
May I welcome change.
May I love unconditionally.
May I slow down my emotions and keep them at arms length. They are clues—not answers, not truth.
Something I’m thinking about
This too shall pass.
This is what AI says:
The phrase "This too shall pass" is generally thought to have originated in Persian and Jewish traditions, with some attributing it to Persian Sufi poets and others to King Solomon. While the exact origin is debated, the sentiment is rooted in the idea of life's impermanence and the transient nature of both joy and sorrow. I use this one a lot. Real talk: this summer has just about done me in. So far, I feel like I’m just staying afloat. So many changes have taken place in the past year—they are good ones in some areas, not so good ones in others. I shouldn’t say they aren’t so good—they are life and we must play it as it lays. Hence, my fondness for giving it up to the passage of time, to knowing there’s no way to fix everything other than exiting this sweet old world. Maybe freedom really is knowing how to detach, allowing others to 100% own their experience, and being left alone to own mine. I don’t think codependency likes “this too shall pass.” It’s too indicative of the truth that sometimes it just isn’t about us, or that we at least aren’t always the main character. Maybe the second half of life is about opening the hands.
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. — Buddha
DO NOT EVER LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN.
Wishes
That we all receive the love we deserve.
That we all find comfort and peace.
That we all find time for the things that soothe us.
That you will forward this to one person you think might like it.
Have a wonderful, peaceful, joyous week. And thank you for supporting my work here at The Autotelic.
Peace. Love.
Allison
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I’ll pass on some hard won wisdom I own from business ownership: change is coming. When things are good, change is coming. When things are bad, change is coming. Knowing this allows me to not be complacent or get bogged down. As the best Beatle advised “all things must pass.”
Hang in there, you’ve got this.
Allison, I always appreciate your musings. (I think that's a word) George is also my favorite Beatle.. I used to have a *major* crush on him in middle school (along with Dylan) and listened to All Things Must Pass on repeat.. I agree it is brilliant, esp the title song, which has comforted me many times in this world of love and inevitable loss.
Thank you for always including both the joys and the sorrows... the joys of a beautiful bee, deer, or adorable Sam, and the current challenge of no time for you. I so get it.
Thank you for always sharing your authentic voice, in all the ways.💛💛💛🌺🐝🐈🎸