November 7, 2024

Article highlights: 

• New wine, old bottles
• An unexpected thing happened!

You’ll remember that before I went off on my Road Trip in September I was deep into reorganizing my work.  I have to report that it became a rabbit hole… an entire rabbit warren, a maze of subterranean technological wormholes to nowhere.

I gave up and reached out to someone who put me together with someone far more expert than I in such things.  They were also defeated by the seemingly simple thing that needed to happen so I could take my modest actions to refit my work picture in a small way.

It was all about old names and old accounts.  All I wanted to do was attach a new thing to something I thot was already a new thing.   But it turned out it wasn’t.  What was going on here?  Why was this so hard?  

At first not even my expert, Tim, could make sense of it.  Were we really going to have to put “new wine in old bottles” and do the new thing in the old way?

It seemed we would, it was a deflating moment.  It was then that Tim ruminated, “Hmmm, you know, it occurs to me that what’s really trying to happen here is a fresh start, a clean slate, a full reboot, a new beginning.”

Whoa.  I wasn’t trying to do all that!  My plan had been to add onto what I had, not to make a new world entirely.  I wasn’t thinking of a fresh start by any means.  But with Tim’s observation, I suddenly realized that was what was trying to happen!  It took me a minute to get my head around it.

We set up a time to cancel the old and create the new.  That turned out to be not so easy either.  It seems “They” don’t make it all that easy to cancel things fully, finally, forever.  Again though, just as we were flagging, Tim surged forward for one last try and Voila!  We broke through to the new world!

Suddenly things started to happen, we found the way and before we quite realized it the cords were cut, the old was gone.  The new came easily after that.  Holy Moly and Boy Howdy, yessiree!  I have a new You Tube channel and a couple other things!

AND HERE’S THE AMAZING THING I WANTED TO SHARE.  When the old was cancelled, I felt something totally unexpected, entirely unanticipated.  I felt so much fall away!  YEARS of old dreams and plans, of electronic starts and stops and successes and failures. All those long forgotten urls.  All the grafting of new starts on another stalk, the dreams re-dreamed, rerouted.  I felt them all lifting off and away!

Old stories, old identities.  Lots of strivings, ideas, creations – we all have them, right?   All that scrolling and watching history.  The whiling away of hours.  The fearful things we found.  Time spent in procrastination.  Lots of waste.  As well as all the good, lots of good too.  

That accumulation has connections and tendrils of the 25 years-worth of our extensive electronic and internet lives.  I wasn’t even that aware of it.  Until I cut that cord.  Suddenly I felt such a lift that I thought I might be defying gravity.

This was no small thing.  I didn’t plan it but it wanted to happen.  And did.  I mention it here because you might be experiencing your own versions of this… there are lots of ways our lives can be – and already are being –  cleared and rebooted.

I’m starting over.  Apparently.  I think it’s likely true that we all are.  It might be what time it is.  A really big shift generally necessitate some kind of starting over, right?  How’s that showing up for you?  A lot of old stuff rising up in you?  That’s part of it.

This is the hallmark of the time: the old is passing as we create new vessels for new wine.  May we all enter into the fun of this with enthusiasm.  After the resistance, of course, haha. 

And may we all receive every support required for our task.  This is my prayer for us all.  

Loving the process.  Most of the time 😉
Mayet Leilani