SEPTEMBER · BE READY

A month of paying attention to the life that is already here.

What becomes visible when you begin to pay attention?

Be Ready is an invitation to spend September becoming a little more available to your own life.

We'll notice the familiar things we've stopped seeing.

We'll pay attention to light and language, repetition and ritual, sounds and colors, ordinary objects and fleeting moments.

We'll follow what catches our attention.

We'll practice curiosity without needing to know where it leads.

And we'll begin gathering evidence of the September we are actually living.

One of our first pieces of inspiration will be William Stafford's beautiful poem You Reading This, Be Ready—a reminder to be awake to the possibility held inside an ordinary moment.

But the poem is only where we begin.

Over four weeks, we'll follow many threads as we explore what it means to be present, receptive, curious, and ready to notice what is already here.