Hey, you in there! wake up! Time to make a change!


A smokey swirl forms on the surface of my coffee this morning.  It embraces the meniscus lapping at the sides of the cup and coils upon itself. I watch as the vibrations from the room, or the souls in it, urge it inwards, until it pierces through and dissipates. My coffee grows cold and the once sweet promise of robust aroma evaporates into a bitter porcelain brew. The swirl seeps further into the murk - drowning in uncertain shadows.

It baffles me to be staring at my coffee this morning, lying still in its simplicity - as if the last week never happened, as if it has accepted its natural death as a foggy memory of the velvety bean that it was born as. It lies there, stupid and still, and I wonder if it was consciously aware of the way in which it was picked, prodded, perpetrated, peeled, and perjured until it burst through its pod of life into a death of ground molasses swills. Was it even given a choice when the khefir came down and severed its life-force, herded into the welcoming jaws of the grinder?

I have been thinking a lot about the choices I have made in my life recently. Our lives are so fleeting - a series of moments that connect in a chain; a path that we walk on. Each step that we take is a link in the direction of our ultimate accomplishment - what we leave behind us. What would you be leaving behind you now if you were to close your eyes forever? This question is burning in my mind - what is a legacy when you have not completed your life's purpose?

We are all here for a reason, whether we are aware of it or not. Our soul has been put into this body, and has been made related to the souls of our families - thrust into the paths of the souls of our friends and less than friends so that it may cross the gates of growth, so that it may mature fully and achieve its full strength. Many of us idle through our lives with limited consciousness - oblivious to when the Universe screams at us to slow down or change direction. This is when we stumble, trip and fall ill. Or die.

The Universe will speak to us through the experiences and people we encounter, through signs and symbols along the way, and through our bodies. Our bodies, which flow with the cadence of the moon and the stars are our best indicators of whether we are on our paths. When our bodies slow or shut down -when we are ill, extremely fatigued, or...we end up in situations beyond our control, it is a sign - a clear statement of:

Hey, you in there! wake up! Time to make a change!

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