At the Comfort Cafe, we use the concept of Simple Action all time. It’s one of our basic principles.
I even came up with a formula for it, which is really kind of funny, considering how math-phobic I am.
simple action + desire + pausing to see what you know now + speaking to yourself kindly = [...]

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After the Virtual Retreat, I wrote a post about feeling scooped out, feeling like a pumpkin after scraping, but before carving.
Kelly made this brilliant comment:
Jen, I hope you will speak some more about the “vacuum” following leading.
I feel the same way after I lead a group and I now work to seriously ground myself–attending [...]

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I was raised in the religion called “Self-Employment.”
As a child, I remember many a summer evening, lounging on the floor of my uncle Walter’s house in Bedford, Indiana, listening to my dad and Walter and Uncle Pryce talk business.
No. Not talk, pontificate. Extol. Preach.

The theme was always the same: be in business for yourself. [...]

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We’ve been resting this month at Comfort Cafe.
Exploring how to rest.

How to be… boneless wonder
tension drained away
nowhere to go, nothing to do
open to receiving without having to make anything happen or manage anything
easy with ourselves
content with what is
restful creativity
restfully engaged with something
resting from the quest
resting in imperfection
See, everybody has a different way of defining [...]

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