September

In September school starts, the weather gets colder, the days get shorter, and in certain circles September, the ninth month, is when we revisit the Ninth Step – making direct amends to people we’ve harmed except when to do so would injure them or others. Weirdly this year I’m also thinking about Yom Kippur which is a Jewish-y kind of even bigger Ninth Step, coming up at the end of the month, where we atone to Gd and I guess commit to amend our ways on the go forward. So yeah, looking at what I’ve done to others, and also to myself, that hasn’t been in keeping with how I want to be or true to my higher self is not so fun. But on the plus side whether it’s Ninth stepping or atoning or some other form of acknowledging a wrong and trying to make things right, endeavoring to do better from now on, that feels good.

And the only way to get that moving on, moving forward, moving in a more appropriate direction boost is to look at where I went wrong in the past and acknowledge it, do what must be done to make it as clean as possible, and then leave it, let it go, buh bye. Wipe those hands together, swish swish, swish. Done with that past. Clean slate, new start, new year, new turn at this life thing, a little wiser, a little clearer.

And get on it. Get on this new start like a dog jumping on the beach after a big poop. Excited, lighter, proud, invigorated. Yeah! I did that and I left it there. It’s gone from me and I feel great! Woof, woof, woof. I’m doing it. Life. One year at a time, one day at a time, one step at a time. Let’s keep going!