connection – Daily Compass

Buddies

There’s nothing like the support of friends, knowing that there are people who will stand by your side, to get you through. But what happens when you see things differently than your friends, when you are pulled towards an idea, a belief, an interest that is foreign to those who are closest to you? Sometimes friendships are broken by this tug in a new direction, but the deepest connections contain enough elasticity to allow differences not to be divisions.

Who are you bound to with an elastic bond that keeps you connected through all the changes of your life?

The Space Between

Does the ocean separate these tiny islands, or does it connect them? There is no music without silence, no words without the white space between them, no relationship without the separation between us. The very atoms that make up the universe are more space than matter.

What open space will you reach into or across today?

Carousel

Do you ever feel like your life is going around and around on the same track, constantly moving, but taking you nowhere new? And yet, the repetitive carousel ride is one of the great joys of childhood. Perhaps what is most wonderful about riding a carousel is not the circular motion, but the opportunity to wave at the loved one who, again and again, disappears and comes into view.

Who or what has put in a welcome reappearance in your life lately?

Buddies

Who are you bound to with an elastic bond that keeps you connected through all the changes of your life?

Thanksgiving Gathering

What better to adorn the Thanksgiving table than a cornucopia of squash, a crazy assortment of colors and shapes, of textures and tones? What better day to rejoice in assembling the crook-necked with the pear-shaped, the fluted with the warty? This kind of kinship isn’t always easy, but it is the way families or communities assemble, not by being the same, but by welcoming everyone to the table.

Who or what are you grateful to be welcoming in today?