Pause

I am re-reading Alice Walker's book,  "We are the ones we have been waiting for."  Such an honoring of what we know from within.  The pause, is being comfortable, honoring the stillness, the quiet within oneself.  Being empty.  Filling up.  Understanding the rhythms.  Today I worked on a new "Altered Book".  I was given a book of "memories" from a friend, and a book that was special to her as a child.  It has now turned into a work of art.  The book of hundreds of pages is now 12 pages.  Scraps of paper, buttons, fabric, cards, all cut and pasted and glued, each inch of a page filled with inspiration and love and well wishes.  It is what comes from and with the pause.  The filling up and emptying.  All a part of a deep wisdom and trust and care.  What a nice way to begin a new year.