Catching Golden Thoughts

When life sends you kittens.

I am not a believer that everything happens for a reason but I do love noticing those little moments of serendipity.

From the small - like when your regular pistachios get substituted for dark chocolate coated sea salted almonds and they become your new favourite snack that you didn’t know existed.

To the beneficial - like when I wanted to start a new yoga class and the only one that worked for my schedule was a restorative yoga class. I had been hoping for something a bit more dynamic but I went along anyway to give it a try and it turns out it’s exactly what I need. A nurturing hour for me.

To those thoughts that turn out to be moments of providence - like getting our kittens. The thought literally popped into my head from nowhere one morning and I couldn’t shift it. I didn’t know why, but I knew we needed a kitten. When we went to visit the kitten we had found, it turned out there was another one left without a home, we needed that one too - I knew it! A few months later I realised. Those two sweet kittens were sent to us to help us all through losing our precious Bobbin. Their sweet little spirits, always eager for a stroke or padding quietly around the house, kept the energy moving and helped at such a sad time, when the house suddenly felt so empty.

For me I only really notice these things when my brain is quiet, when my thoughts have room. A state I have to work quite hard to reach.

Generally it’s very cluttered up there, a whirlwind of half-finished thoughts and mental to-do lists, all flying around in different directions. I often feel like a contestant on The Crystal Maze (my favourite show from the 90’s). I’ve reached the crystal dome and all I need to do is grab on to one of those shiny golden thoughts that are flying around.

Those rare moments, when they stop pumping the air into the dome and all of my thoughts float to the ground, are the moments when I can notice those special serendipitous happenings.

Here’s to more moments with the air switched off, more moments of peace, more moments of noticing.

Dani x