Dissatisfaction and Finding Meaning

Harnessing Circle Wisdom for Social Change

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Meet Mars - the morning menace!

The cat has woken me up to let him out. He makes this half meow half yelping sound whilst clawing the carpet next to the bed. He is relentless, and I have learnt to give in and get up! (While muttering under my breath about getting a cat-flap).

I step outside as he struts away tail high in the air.

I relish the quiet at this time of the morning.

Our small terraced house overlooks an unruly communal garden space, where there are usually half a dozen or more children are chasing each other, firing water pistols or bouncing basketballs.

In the murky morning hush, lit by a single fading orange glow from the one working streetlamp, I self-consciously tend to my morning practice.

This is currently a mash-up of honouring the elements, turning to each direction to petition for peace, connecting to my body, breath, womb and heart, and calling in the stag, salmon, hawk and bear.

I trust that I’m hidden enough in the shadows and hope it’s too early for anyone to glance out of their window and see me! My preference would be to greet the day somewhere wild and inhabited only by my other-than-the-kin; but that is not my current life. I must adapt to a tiny courtyard and risk being watched by other humans.

As I turn in a Circle to face each of the directions, I invariably sense that longing still to feel connected with my roots, to rediscover the wisdom passed down through generations, and to find belonging in the embrace of community.

Recently a friend (lovingly) reflected back to me that I have a tendency to be dissatisfied. And it’s true. I am dissatisfied with how things are. I grapple with the inequitable, unjust state of the world, as I wrestle with my own privilege and seek to excavate a path of contribution in service to the greater whole.