Shuffle Synchronicities: Volume 1 - #213

"Daylight" by Matt and Kim - 08/03/21

"Daylight" by Matt and Kim

According to Genius.com, ~“‘Daylight', Matt & Kim’s single that went Gold, speaks to embracing fun and letting go of responsibility, living for the daylight while duties and social norms go out the window.”

It’s a very August song.

About traveling and enjoying the sun.

And in the daylight we can hitchhike to maine
I hope that someday I’ll see without these frames
And in the daylight I don’t pick up my phone
'Cause in the daylight anywhere feels like home

It made me think of a decision I made last night to book a trip to Esalen in Big Sur next week for a ~week-long workshop with my Enneagram teacher Russ Hudson.

In his description of people who are low in their sexual instinct in the year-long course, like I seem to be, right now at least, he said something that rang true:

“What is blocked is you breaking out of your routine to pursue those little sparky, adventure, magic moments that you would like to have. My experience is people, when they have the sexual blind spot, they have an exaggerated sense of responsibility...There's always a feeling like the world will collapse if I'm not the responsible one. There's this sense of I've got to always be the sensible person, and so I don't have time...There's a way in which that people keep postponing their adventure, the adventure of their life...They don't follow that evolutionary impulse that might guide them to some kind of new adventure, some kind of new platform, something unexpected...Basically, you procrastinate your adventures. You procrastinate that which would spark you and make your toes wiggle. You kind of like the idea, but you don't do it. Sometimes you're a little afraid of it.”

I had always wanted to go to Esalen, and before the spiritual awakening, I had been neurotically envious/hateful of people’s descriptions of their trips.

After the spiritual awakening, I enjoyed hearing about others’ experiences but still thought I needed to go with someone, or that it was too expensive, or that the trip was too close to my trip back to Rochester later in August for my sister’s wedding.

But I thought of what I had planned for this week coming up. My day job’s office is closed for the month of August, re-opening Labor Day. I have my near-daily tennis matches, a haircut, a doctor’s appointment, and that was about it ;)

As I was considering booking the trip, I felt an inner critic lash out briefly about spending the money.

But I am getting paid this month.

And I was lucky that someone canceled on a relatively inexpensive room.

I did a shuffle to help with the decision and got:

“Too Much of Nothing” by Bob Dylan

Which made me think that I had too much of nothing going on.

When there's too much of nothing
Can cause a man to weep

And that I did indeed need to spark some ️ into my life.

So Esalen here I come!!!

What are your August plans?!

Okay, that’s the two hundred and thirteenth Shuffle Synchronicities.