Moving On With Simple Abundance

I started a book years and years ago called, “Moving On” by the author, Sarah Ban Breathnach, who wrote “Simple Abundance.” At the time, I was not ready for its ideas and put it away. Sometimes we need to “grow into” our books. We picked them for a reason- they spoke to us loudly enough to purchase them. But even if the teacher has shown up, the student isn’t always quite ready for the message. That’s ok. Books wait. They are patient teachers.

I am making many changes this year: personally, professionally, possibly even geographically (to expat again). I am ready to streamline, let go of things that no longer serve or bring up memories I no longer want. I crave space, empty walls and blank canvasses in which to design new creations. I know I’m ready to “become” even if it is an uncomfortable process; for the mission is well worth it: freedom. And I will find it by letting go of the remnants of my past I no longer want to carry. It will be easier, and I sense, more uplifting to pick the things I do want, rather than sift through everything and decide what I don’t want. If it has nothing to do with my music, my writings, my family, France, joy, or my most relevant artwork, it no longer belongs to me. I will take only what I love, and let EVERYTHING else go, just as I intend to move towards the Love that still thrives in my life, and turn away from the indifference. I love with ALL my heart, without reservation. It makes sense that I want to surround myself with nothing but the same. I’m so looking forward to it.

So this will also be another series of articles for this year- as I work through this book. I do expect it to be a transformation …of what I’m not sure. But it is something good. I’m not even sure what these chapters will look like, let alone its “end.” It is an experiment and adventure that you, the reader, and I will discover together.

So to sum up, besides little posts here and there, the series I’m working on this year are:

1. Running with Wild Horses
2. Predators in the Field
3. Moving On

Besides of course, blogs/reblogs of Music News, Inspiration, and Cool Cats.

The different posts of the series will begin soon, as will the new chapters of “moving on”.

Blessings!

Carry a song in your heart, and Light in Your Soul.
-KaiCarra

KaiCarra

KaiCarra can be reached at Kaicarra@gmail.com She is an ambient composer affiliated with BMI and IMDb. She is also a singer, pianist, and recording artist with 3 albums & 2 singles published. She is now working in film, and is getting ready to direct her first film, in which she wrote and composed. Growing up Catholic, she can best be described as a Mystic Christian. Her art and music are infused with her spirituality. After deciding to practice the Benedictine Rule since 2009, she is preparing for her final Oblation in the upcoming year. While she has experienced many events in her life ranging from learning to walk again without limping after an almost-fatal car accident, surviving child abuse, to composing music and ultimately singing at the United Nations in Paris, 2003, she finds God is "not done with" her yet. In 2009, she was diagnosed with a genetically-disposed autoimmune disease that affects the oxygen in her blood, her hormones, and her joints. She was used to jumping up on any new terrific idea and running with it, eagerly. In the last few years, she struggles with her "new reality" and carefully chooses where to spend her limited energy. Of course, comparing between the "then" and "now", depression is sometimes part of the battle. However, this latest challenge may slow her; it will not stop her from reaching out, telling her stories and the insights she's learned, advocating for children, recognizing people who are leaders in "walking their talk", composing music and making films. She continues to try to make a positive difference in others' lives by living her three values: conviction, integrity, and courage. Her work will be her Legacy. If she ever retires, she wants to surround herself with pear trees, flowers, picturesque nature, a small cottage to live in, two cats, one dog, two goats, one horse, and a brood of chickens. She will have farm help of course, as she intends only to crochet, play piano, write letters to friends on beautiful stationery, eat pears, make goat cheese, drink a nightly glass of bordeaux, cuddle kitties, protect her chickens as she walks with her dog, and adventure with her horse on trail rides. And all of that, would be perfect.

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