…the art of life more than the game of life.
Wonder, Waltz, & Awe > Win, Lose, or Draw.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
Tag Archives: beauty
The Soil & The Gardener = The Garden
Making notes tonight in preparation for a message I get to share in the transitioning colors of Vermont next week.
Here are some….
This life finds us hovering above the soil that holds the potential for gardens of growth, lessons learned, attention to detail, awareness, and appreciation of beauty. For some reason I can’t rid my thoughts of the law of the harvest and the law of compensation these days.
You can’t separate the soil and gardener from of the garden itself. Without each other, the garden doesn’t exist.
How does your garden grow and grow well? It begins with a gardener that is fully present and fully aware of his responsibility and duty to be gardening in the first place.
Weeds are synonymous with noise and SPAM.
Beauty is produced. Beauty is bloomed. Beauty bursts through the dirt after a seed is sown.
To be in continued…
Mountains, Galaxies, & Oceans AKA Life, Family, & Business
The reason we gawk at mountains, get lost in the stars, and are taken away by the crashing of ocean waves is because they read us…they reflect something that is true deep in our core…they encourage us to come and climb, to shine, and to sail.
The richness that I’ve been able to claim in this world is the divine allurement of life, family, and business. They’re my mountains, galaxies, and oceans.
They carry a tone of exploration. They have a theme of discovery. They are a bouquet of beauty.
What do you feel on the inside looking while looking at the outside of mountains?
What do you hear in the cosmos?
Where are you taken as the waves slam your skin?
Now ask these same questions looking at your life, family, and business.
Climb.
Shine.
Sail.
Breathe.
Repeat.
When They Say You Have An Eye…
…what they’re really saying is that you have a knack for the unnoticed.
They’re also saying you have an ear that hears what the rest of us don’t.
You connect unrelated dots.
You read the line, between the line, and the next line. Simultaneously.
You shine and the mirrors that reflect your shine spin-off enlightenment…for us…and for your joy. Joy swap.
Or as Antoine de Saint Exupéry once said, “Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
I think we see the soul when we see your heart in your eyes.
Leadership is letting another see with those eyes.
Soul > The Rulebook.
The Trenches
Where the rubber hits the road.
Where the submit button sends your post.
Where the streets have a name and where the streets have no name.
Where the speech leaves the stage.
Where music hits the listeners ear.
Where hope is received.
Where an experienced is enjoyed and simultaneously joy is exchanged.
All…
…is…
…a by-product…
…of one’s romantic waltz in the trenches.
If you own a callus, it was not gifted to you, it was earned.
But you will call it a gift.
Ashton.Gustafson 