Mollie is publishing a chapter of her book The Beauty All Along in weekly installments. If you’re missed a chapter, you can catch up by reading previous chapters.
PART ONE
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
In 2001 my intuition brought me to the Midwest, where I stood in Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan. Like everyone, I was unaware of how my life would unfold as I followed my golden thread. What I was aware of is that when I find my outer stillness, I can hear my inner wisdom. My intuition is my most trusted guide in living, breathing, surviving, loving and thriving in this one precious life and I followed it here.
I was 19 and entering the next phase of my li…