I tell myself to do just one thing. Put clothes on. Eat something. Open up my computer and write a sentence, a word. One thing. Just one.
Then I think of how it will compound. How one thing leads to another and that’s how everything gets built. I lose track quickly of how important just focusing on the first step is. I start to zoom in on how all those little pieces will join together to make something I deem worthwhile. Then I’m not thinking about each individual part anymore. I’m thinking about the entire lifespan of the thing. Seeing the tree in the seed.
But there are seeds that never become trees at all. And trees that never soar above me. Never make me feel safe and small and powerful and insignificant all at once. Trees that turn into tables or door frames. Paper for notebooks. Trees that burn in fires. That live high in mountains, where the air is thin, and put in everything they can, but never get over three feet tall.
And I’m reminded not to get too caught up in the building. Not to cling too hard to the idea that one thing always becomes another and another. Or that it always needs to. Sometimes one thing is just that. You write one sentence and then you curl up on the floor and sob for the rest of the day. And that’s okay.
You don’t have to get bogged down by the bigness of the possibility. Not every word has to be part of the next great American novel. Not every day has to be dripping with productivity. Has to have tangible accomplishments to point to.
Not every seed exists to become towering.
Ruby Pipes 
This is so beautiful! Such a fresh and different viewpoint.!
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Thank you so much!
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ahhhhh Ruby,
so beautiful.
And the essence of life, really, one tiny step at a time,
the seed, the sapling, the tree an then maybe even the old growth.
one breath at a time
xo
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It really is, isn’t it? Just one breath at a time. Do you find your yoga helps in remembering that?
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yoga is the only thing that helps me remember that, reminds me constantly.
It’s my calm, it’s my meditation, it’s so important to me.
In practice you need to establish your breath first, and then, once you’re going, if you find yourself unable to breathe, or it’s off….we rest until it comes back steady. No pushing through, no expectations of anything but whatever is happening on the mat in the moment.
Saved my life
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That’s fantastic. I keep thinking I’d like to get into it. I think it would do a lot of lovely things for me.
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Ruby,
It’s Heart touching.
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Thank you. ❤
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Pretty sure I needed to read this right at this moment. Thanks for making it plain and beautiful at the same time.
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I’m so glad you found it at the right moment! Thank you very much for your kind words.
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A beautiful collection of words, perfectly pieced together to form a thought / reflection with the power to inspire something uplifting in all who read it.
I loved this Ruby
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Gah. You always say the nicest things. Thank you so much.
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Wow
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Thanks.
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It is such a beautiful way If living, I need it, because everyday I torture myself with making them so fantastic, when I need just let them be, some will grow up, some not. Thank u.
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Thank you so much, Leon. It’s hard to remember, isn’t it? Even harder to act accordingly. Just practice, I suppose.
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“Not every seed exists to become towering”- what a beautiful thought!
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Thank you. Isn’t it?
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