Grace.

Feeling restless and not wanting to fill that space with more worry, or doing stuff for the sake of doing something. I recognise the push to do something is the masculine action, and the grace of 'being' is the feminine. 

Sometimes the doing is ploughing into and driving on with a hundred and one small minutae that annoy, and the ploughing through is more in "a getting them done and out of the way" energy, just so that one can find time to be still and just 'be'. 

Ploughing through and getting things done is the masculine energy and being receptive to the grace of Graceful living is the feminine energy. Both are here and they take turns to hold the attention. The push pull of these makes one nervy, and on edge and thats when we get restless and worried. Its all in the mind, a creation of push and pull and we must get down to its rawness to find what ticks in our own hearts, not what we have been bamboozled into accepting as our own duty and accepting the societal worries that come with the imposed duty.

Michaela.

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

- Wendell Berry