The Butterfly Path
Hellllllo beautiful friends ...
As always, wishing you as much peace as possible … and for good measure let’s throw in some grace, and kindness, and radical self-compassion, and fiercely sacred rage, and the energy of “beginning again.”
So much has happened (always) since I last wrote behind the scenes, and so much has to do with BUTTERFLIES.
If you’re on my Patreon, this is a little bit of a repeat, albeit with some new developments …
Recently on an airplane to attend my cousin’s wedding, I was reading a passage in the wonderful Valerie Kaur’s book See No Stranger and she was speaking about the butterfly effect - the idea in chaos theory that describes how small changes - like the flapping of a butterflies wings - can produce dramatically different outcomes elsewhere in the world. As I was reading the passage, my eyes drifted to the movie screen the passenger next to me was watching, and at that very moment her closed captioning read “butterfly effect.” I tapped her and said, “Not to be a weirdo but did your movie just talk about the butterfly effect?? Read this!!” And she was like, OMG WHOA! Love a good synchronicity.
The flapping of a butterfly’s wings surely had an effect on me as a 16 year old ~ I witnessed a small migration while in the thick of depression and it saved my life and has continued to be a symbol of hope for me - so much that I titled my first album Where the Monarchs Circled (2000) after this place and experience.
