What Does It Look Like to Choose Ease?

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."
​— Mary Oliver from Wild Geese

My word for the year is ease. To me it's a comforting and wonderful word - when I hear it I feel my body relax into it. In fact, I tried several other really good words, creativity, purpose, inspiration, and more. All amazing words, and ease was the only one that gave me that feeling of “yes, that’s it.” And I say this after a day of running from thing to thing to one more thing. Plus trying to remember how to create 1099's and then posting this tonight to achieve my goal of blogging for the 5th month in a row! It hasn't felt particularly easeful.​ Hmmm ... I wonder what it looks like to choose ease? 
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It sounds so good in theory and in reality, I don't want to choose period. I want to do all the things - I'm lucky and privileged enough to be capable, healthy, and loving what I’m up to, therefore I should be able to do it all. Right?! And that's just it, we can't do it all and we includes me. I cannot do it all! Just saying that and letting go of the angst around trying to do it all feels a bit easeful. 

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