“Hey girl, let it go.”
Yesterday I took a long walk on the beach.
I didn’t have a plan to come to any great transformative epiphany or anything, but those little miracles do happen when you least expect it. You know, the crack that lets the light in, that aha moment.
So I came to a few thoughts along my afternoon walk on the shore, and it felt as though I finally got it.
What if… we wrote a love letter to every single person (dog, cat, horse, insect, etc. you can take it from there) we’ve ever physically met?
The idea came as I picked up a stone washed at my feet from the ocean waves.
Of course, it felt like a sign. Each loving thought I had, a stone appeared.
It transformed my whole moment.
The idea of writing a love letter — or it could be a love poem (an ode or haiku, length depending on the person, place, creature or thing) for every person and thing we encounter on our life’s journey — just to say “I love you…” then let it all go back into the cosmic ocean… well, suddenly that felt like the thing I needed to do most.
I felt a surge of unconditional love. My thoughts raced with this urgent need to write about self-love and all that goes with it: forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance. I wanted…
