Message from the Trees on Legacy

Howdy. How's today treating you? I had some thoughts to share with you, in hopes they would be supportive in some fashion.

Periodically, the concept of legacy arises for me. It's been bumping around inside me for decades. In my observation, this is pretty common for us outlier brain types.

We want to feel ourselves impacting the world. We are designed for large impact after all.

This urge is usually pretty cluttered up and obscured underneath internalized stories about acceptability in the what, the why, and the how.

Most people never fully remove these obstacles and step into the unfettered and clear understanding of precisely what they came into this life to do, to be, to share.

And that's only step 1, really, because from there we have to actually do the making and the sharing!

Honestly, it can get pretty headachey having these highly gifted brains. (This is why I made us an operating manual with the Fundamentals of the Highly Gifted Brain).

I try and get outside into the rest of the natural world as often as possible. I say "the rest of" because I am part of the natural world, but my house is not. So there is this odd artifice of separation that I choose to step over as regularly as possible.

I have a deeply personal relationship with trees, the land, the water, the birds, the animals, etc.

You could call this something fancy like mystical or spiritual, but I think it's actually just NATURAL. Everyone has this, if they clear away enough static and clutter. 

It is your birthright, in fact. Only society has distorted your access.

Yesterday I was out by the river. There was this massive fallen tree log. It was as tall as my head (I'm 5'2" for reference). It was old and had been down for awhile, you could tell.

I've included some pictures looking to my left and to my right, trying to show you some of the scale, as well as a close up.

My own sense of my purpose in this life is to contribute meaningfully to the restoration of JOY to the planet. I have been doing this in many ways.

Last summer, I launched my Joyful Story Club app, which is the free home for my primary sharing of joy. It's based on the foundation of my fiction fantasy writing, my nature photography, and my innate and unerring sensation of the energy line of JOY that runs through this Cosmos.

Feeling several years of hard personal work suddenly come together and slide effortlessly out, as the app did at the time, was one of those orgasmic outlier brain moments that we truly live for.

And now my work is to strengthen its foundation and start to grow it.

The fallen trees that I see when I'm out and about always beckon me to come close and listen.

They have the wisest message for life:

LIVE FULLY AS WHAT YOU ARE.

In death, become the nourishment and home for new life that wouldn't be possible had you not lived fully and wholly.

I like to spend a long time with these trees. They function differently than humans do. Energy, wisdom, and spirit remain long after what we term "death" has occurred.

I love to tune into the literal millions of new lives vibrantly humming away, growing and becoming, in the fertility of the fallen tree.

Look again at the close-up picture and you can see so much life. Mosses, lichens, a zillion baby would-be trees.

Legacy is where I am focused now. Will I devote to writing the joyful stories that are mine to share around the globe? Will they become the fertile tree log out of which new joy arises? This is my vision and most fervent desire.

WHAT IS YOURS?

I truly want to know. Please comment/write to me and share it.

And if you want to gather with others like us, I am hosting a two part live workshop across two Saturdays for those of wanting to focus on accessing and accelerating our legacies into the world NOW.

Because the world has reached its maximum tolerance point for the crappy paradigms that have ruled for aeons and it's up to us to flip the script.

And restore the true JOY.

I would love nothing more than to support you in more precisely understanding and unfurling your own legacy work into the world with the cleanest and most vibrant expression possible.