the right time and place

postcard from my soul, 01: right time & place

in this time, as I am learning to have greater trust, surrender, and love of my fate — I’m understanding how there is always a right time and place. for everything. and sometimes, even when suffering happens, when the life doesn’t fall perfectly aligned with my hopes and expectations — maybe it is still the right time and place — a chance to suffer, expand, surrender, and change.

it reminds me of a quote from the movie Parasite: “do you know what kind of plan never fails? no plan at all. you know why? because life cannot be planned” I’ve also written about this no-plan philosophy in the past: no plan in the creative wild, and in days without form.

but. even without planning, could it be that there is an even greater, mysterious logic to life — the undecipherable intuitive order of right time and place? what I mean is: could it be that every time and place we find ourselves in — there is a deeper reason for being there? a deeper reason for my being and spirit to discover?

could there be lessons I am meant to uncover from my immediate surroundings, things I am meant to learn from — from the people I interact with, from the air and wind and words swirling around me?

why is here and now the right time and place?

do you have an answer to this question?

for me, confinement in this Japanese library-house — half of which still remains shrouded in mystery — is like living inside my own psyche; my subconscious and unconscious; the majority of which I still don’t know. and that is exciting to me. this time feels like incubation period; a training of deeper intimacy — into myself. this is the right time and place, because I’ve gone deeper within and into my art than I ever have before. and wherever I go next, I will carry the me I discovered here, in this time and place, with me.