Behind every great victory, every world-changing revolution, every life-altering decision, or impactful project, there’s usually a quiet moment when someone, somewhere, decided to follow their delight.
When you get a visceral urge to start a book club, call a friend, explore new territory, enter a competition, or contact a complete stranger whose work has touched your life, don’t overthink it. Go for it. It is Delight, knocking on your door.
Recently, I deemed myself a student of Delight—Because I have questions for this impassioned phenomenon.
Questions like:
✧ What is the full potential of delight?
✧ What is it revealing to us?
✧ Is delight the language of personal purpose?
To answer these questions, I’ve been tracking my own delight in the evening pages of my journal. When I experience delight (which I consider a sense of great pleasure, an uninhibited urge or passion, or thrilling inspiration) I record the occurrence by way of 3 questions.
✧ What experience delighted me?
✧ What did the occurrence provide or show me?
✧ What does it make me want to do next?
This helps deepen my understanding of my own capacity to trust and honor my unique relationship with the phenomenon of delight. It feels like I’m writing the treasure map to my soul’s beckoning.
I’m sharing this with you today because there has been a delightful urge on my heart and mind lately to share more about tradition-tending and ritual reclamation for self and family—meaningful, personal, processes for peaceful productivity! If you are looking for some tradition-tending inspiration or community, consider following me on Substack.
Also! Here are a few things that may spark some delight in you or perhaps inspire you to rethink your own ways of appreciating or celebrating life:
Irrational Right of Ways—My 7 min podcast for the part of you arguing with the delight-seeker within.
Reclaiming the Night: An Alternative to Halloween—Health, reverence, truth.
Delightfully,
Kenzie
PS. What great pleasure, uninhibited urge, passion, or thrilling inspiration has been knocking on the door of your heart or mind lately?
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