“I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.” - John Keats
Dear Beautiful Friends,
On this first day of fall that marks 99 days left in 2023, here’s a little snippet from the most recent monthly pop-up salon for subscribers. The topic was Uncertainty & Not Knowing. SHRIEK!!
It’s such a deep, gooey, uncomfortable, and opportunity-filled topic that I’m opening a four-week salon-style course that will start next Wednesday, and …
I want all of you to sign up💜.
Can you imagine ending the year and beginning the new one with a more curious and open view of Not Knowing? Or having a fresh experience available to you every time you felt the quivers of uncertainty? Let’s expand our capacity for life’s undulations and great unknowns, because they are going to come at us like confetti!
Carina, I recorded this because you asked. 🧚♀️
Here’s what we’ll be exploring for four Wednesdays this fall:
The inherent natural-ness and no-problem-ness of uncertainty and *not knowing*.
What if *not knowing* what's next or what to do in a situation isn't a crisis-of-faith problem?
What if we softened our resistance around uncertainty, to the point where we could even befriend it?
What if we could see the Truth & Beauty in uncertainty/not knowing?
As the leaves yellow and clouds roll in, we’re going directly into the frontier of uncertainty and see it for all the beauty (and titillation) it offers us.
We're also going to play around with what poet John Keat's called "negative capability"--
a capacity to allow for the uncertainty, mysteries and doubts that are part of the human experience.
In 21st-century parlance, you might say we’re going to explore the capacity to simply HANDLE IT (all of it!), or/and go with the flow with more ease.
The world is lively, life feels jaunty, uncertain and what the hell does the future hold?
So with all that in mind, let's see how we can turn toward the beauty of all that uncertainty to calm our minds, spirits and engage more whole-heartedly with the world around us.
And maybe simply get a good night's sleep for goodness sakes!
Dates: September 27 - October 18
Four Wednesdays 8 - 9 am PT on Zoom. Calls will be recorded.
Includes weekly prompts and one 30-min 1:1 conversation.
Fee $300
$270 for paid subscribers
$250 for past salon participants
Message me if you really want in and have financial constraints, we’ll work something out.
All the info you need—payment, Zoom link, below👇🏼
Don't Know? Uncertain? Perfect! Let's Explore