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Dear Friends and Community,
Gathering my wits is what I said as I sat to craft this email, a few days ago. I take this page I offer seriously. Gathering my wits is what I have needed to do since this year began.Well, really for the last 10 years. In speaking with others I know I am not alone, in fact, we are large and growing community all over the world, trying to gather up our wits to navigate the winds of unrest and change. And “wits” seems a perfect thing to gather for what we need, for all that is happening, all that is being threatened, all the harm being done. To gather up ourselves, to remember our training to meet the worst of times with the best of who we are.
Wits…intelligence, shrewdness, astuteness, cleverness, canniness, acuteness, acuity,sharpness, sense, commonsense, wisdom, discernment, perception, intuition, acumen,judgement,understanding,gumption,
sharpness, horse sense, nous,…smarts.
In other words using what we were given to use in all aspects of our life, especially, when things go awry. To make full and good use of our intelligence can even be thought of as grace.
And so often in the moment and yes even in the fear, with all the uncertainty, and all the chaos, we forget, I forget. We might go down all the rabbit holes thinking about ourselves, our loved ones, our friends, our children, all children, our neighbors. And I think about all those unable to pay attention to all the breaking news shaping the trajectory of our country, because they are battling other challenges, illness, anxiety, depression, care-giving, food insecurity, joblessness and the like. And so I think and I feel and I do not get too upset with myself for being human for perhaps sitting in it for too long. But I know I cannot stay there just doing that, or I will be swallowed up.
I will offer more down the page after the weeks schedule and upcoming events.
Sunday Jan 18 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2026-01-18/)
Monday Jan 19 ~ 6 to 7:30 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2026-01-19/)
Learning about our Architypes.
Thursday Jan 22 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2026-01-22/)
Saturday Jan 24 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ SoulHeART (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/soul-heart-creation-9/)
A method of creating something we can see feel and hold, of what our soul wants us to see and know. Please pre-register or let me know you plan to attend.
Sunday Jan 25 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2026-01-25/)
Upcoming Events:
Sunday Feb 1 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Practitioners Reiki Share (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/st-sunday-reiki-share-for-pratitioners-2026-02-01/)
Tuesday Feb 10 ~ 7 to 8:PM ~ Writing Coven (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/the-writing-coven-2/)
Saturday Feb 21 ~ 10 to 5 PM ~ Family Constellation Workshop (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/family-constellation-workshop-3/)
Saturday Feb 28 ~ 6:30 to 9PM ~ SoulHeART (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/soul-heart-creation-10/)
Gathering Our Wits…
I have had some really bad moments since the murder of Renee Good. Venezuela didn’t strike a good note either. The Greenland grab is disgusting. And just for fun lets consider the bully maneuvering to take someone’s Nobel Prize and imagining you earned it. Shameful and embarrassing. Dictators are always bullies. What we have now is the race for who is the best at being the worst. What fun.
The year has just begun and I feel it is already too long a year. It is a scary thought to think this is where it began and hard not to imagine where its going. And I wouldn’t be saying any of this if I did not have something to offer from my “wits” that gives us a place to go when we are feeling most afraid, that can give us a perspective that allows us to see beyond the daily chaos of threats, cruelty and all the damage already done.
Keeping pace with this regime is difficult. And as much as we might like to tune it out, at this point that is more like losing our wits than gathering them. We have to be informed, have a good and reliable source of “keeping it real”, news. I will reiterate from last week, there is no greater kindness than truth, and no greater harm than lying. Be aware to be informed. Ask yourself, “do I know the sound my own soul makes when speaking of “truth”.
Be aware of your particular “quota”. I mean, your life and and what you need to do in it. While everything seems out of control, allow your life to feel you are wholly present in it. We can and do get lost in this at times, yet be aware to come back to you, and those in your care, those you love. To keep laughing and feeling the joy of life and being. It is the storehouse that we offer from.Communities are nurtured through self-love, and co-creative “wits”.
Respect the longer view, the wider lenses. We are moving towards a something not yet fully formed. We have no idea where we are going to land. If any of what holds this together as a democracy, will hold, or help.
All I see being offered to us is ugly. This helps determine for me that it not born from wits or grace. Separation, bias, hate, violence and murder. Male dominance, brute force, might is right. Don’t forget beauty is grace. Kindness, love, compassion is grace. Unity, community is grace. For me, gathering my wits is a daily function. And if I skip a day of coming back, I allow my guides and angels to bring me back to my wits, and the things I know, for sure, for certain.
What is for sure? The only for sure thing is that which stays forever. We are living in a stream of time, a civilization, like many others that have been and are now gone. Each one offered a glimpse of what we could learn from them in an effort to progress in our humanity. But, we all know what we use history for; missing the point, and forgetting. Time is a temporary concept that belongs to temporary things that we sometimes imagine as real.
We belong to the timeless. That is our true reality. And we are not the owners of it, we do not have ownership over what holds all this together. Within this universal, we are the particulars, and we each have our “quota”, our life, to feel what it is to have some control of what we can try, with good effort, to hold together.
The “quota” is our gift of life, however temporary, it holds within it the infinite and the “wits” of infinite mind, thought, realization, all of which breaks the spell, as to how little control we truly have, and yet opens us to an expansive awareness, that in the meantime, allows us to offer to this time, this moment, the wits, the intelligence, the wisdom, of infinite thinking, and grace. It is what assists us in moving through this time able to rest in, knowing what we can do, and what we cannot.
When I fell recently into the deep pit of despair over what my own eyes are seeing in this country, and world, because of the pervasive ignorance of an idiot bully child with far too much power, wanting more and all power to make everything ugly, and those who have sold their souls to the same demons he is possessed with,I knew I had to come back hOMe again. I am thankful for the nudges, the dreams and visions, that I pay attention to. I know you are endeavoring to do the same.
Pull a card, was the inner call. It was 4AM, after a dream of which I asked, after carefully writing down every detail, “what does it mean”? “Pull a card”.
I did:
OWNERSHIP
“Everything animate and inanimate within the universe is controlled by the Absolute. One should therefore accept only those things necessary, which are set aside as one’s quota, and not take other things, knowing well to whom they belong”.
~ Isopanishad ~
Love is the reach. It is the stretch we have to make towards ourself and each other. That is it! We miss it, we come back to try again. Love is our quota…it is what we have in our storehouse to give. The heart must open to make the choice to gather all our wits to be in this moment with loving kindness (truth) and all sorts of co-creative intelligence. and dare I say, with grace.
I thank you, all who take the time to read this weekly muse. I know there are so many very intelligent, educated people here. That is how I know that what I offer belongs to the “Great Mystery”, entrusted to me to speak through my heart, Its Wits, and It’s Grace, not just words that are good for some but for all. Otherwise, I would be too afraid to utter a word.
Take good care of yourself, safe-guard your heart, care for your “quota” with all your heart and wits. Lets take care of each, mindful of kindness, and compassion for all we are holding at this time. There is great beauty in that. Keep checking in on your friends and neighbors.
Peace and blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stones
Image of Starling that caught my attention while watching snow falling on silence. I am loving the snow today, as well.
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