I began my day today with a brief stroll to a nearby hotel in Vienna. A package was left for me and friends via a connection traveling to Vienna from New Orleans. It’s a grey dismal morning. As I walked through the drizzle to get my package, my thoughts began to wander.
I thought back to a conversation I had last night with friend and Reiki teacher, Elizabeth, and had to chuckle in remembering. Her advice to me was “remember what the queen said to Alice.” “What?” I asked. She reminded me, in Alice in Wonderland, that Alice said “There’s no use trying, one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
As I exited the U-Bahn in search of my destination, I couldn’t help but consider these words… and take note of my own tendency towards fixed thinking. Although I have thought many impossible thoughts that have led me on journeys that seemed impossible indeed, I still have to be careful not to get lost in fixed thinking. That is, when I come to what seems like a dead end and feel stuck there… to be careful not to allow myself to indeed believe that is true. Enter… impossible thoughts.
So today I am going to lighten the load of my heavy thinking and allow for some impossible thoughts to come in. Experience tells me, that doesn’t mean they will happen. But indeed it doesn’t mean that they won’t. Impossible thinking can create a window for action that allows things that seem impossible… to indeed come to be.
Earlier this week I took a brief escape to the near-bye Stadtpark. I have found recently with the lingering cold and demands on my time that I haven’t taken the time to just be in nature. While I love the city of Vienna, without time in nature I feel starved for something and indeed disconnected from myself. So I took a little break in my day and just wandered around the trees and communed with the pigeons. It was a relief to me just to have some time to be, taking it in and snapping photos.
How about you, any impossible thoughts or ideas brimming in your world? It’s always great to hear from you!
It is a quiet Sunday morning here. There seems to be a hush in the city as if it has not yet woken up. A solitary bird sings outside despite the gloomy skies. Good-bye for now from Vienna!
Gypsy Woman 
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