Put the Sock on the Correct Foot and Call It Growth...

This wasn’t a breakdown… it was a sock adjustment.

Let me start with this.

I hate folding socks.

Hate it.

They all end up in a basket or shoved in a drawer because matching them?

Forget it. You’re never finding the other one anyway.

I’ll deal with it later… which usually means I don’t.

And I know I’m not the only one.

But here’s the thing.

Sometimes you actually do have to match them.

Especially when they’re not just regular socks.

I was putting mine on the other day, and these ones say left and right.

Compression socks. And my left ankle has been doing its little

“Hey, remember me?” thing lately.

Nothing major, just enough to be annoying.

So, I stopped and thought… alright, maybe this is one of those times where the small detail actually matters.

Not everything needs a big fix.

Sometimes it’s just… put the right sock on the right foot and keep it moving.

Then I go to grab my shoes.

Didn’t turn on the light.

Didn’t need to.

Same place, same routine, same grab I’ve done a hundred times.

Just reached in and grabbed them like I always do.

Sat down, started putting them on…

and realized I grabbed two completely different shoes.

One was my walking tennis shoe. The other was a Hey Dude slip-on.

I just sat there like… how did I even do that?

Same spot. Same motion. Same routine.

But I wasn’t actually paying attention.

And that’s the part.

Sometimes in the dark, even when you’ve done something a million times and you think you’ve got it… you don’t.

That dark can be a little tricky like that.

So, every once in a while, you actually have to turn the light on.

Because what you think you’re grabbing and what’s actually there… aren’t always the same thing.

So, I fix that, get the right pair of shoes on, and headed outside.

Because last night we went from normal spring weather to “surprise, it might freeze,”

and I had to go cover my aloe plants like they’re part of the household now.

I go check on them.

Nine plants. Some look great, some look like they had a few rough nights,

but they’re still here.

(And if you didn’t catch my last post about these aloe plants… go back one.

That whole story matters here.)

And I’m standing there realizing… I’m not out here trying to control which one grows better.

I’m not hovering over them like, “come on, do something.”

You do what you can: you cover them when it gets cold you water them when they need it you don’t keep digging them up every five minutes to check if they’re okay

You let them be.

That’s kind of where I’ve been lately.

Not ignoring things. Not pretending nothing’s happening.

Just not turning every little shift into a whole situation.

Because that’s where people can really lose it.

Something feels off and suddenly it’s:

what does this mean

what do I need to do

how do I fix it right now

And sometimes the answer is… you don’t.

You notice it.

You make a small adjustment if it actually helps.

And then you leave it alone long enough to see what it does.

Then I did what I always do. I went and looked up at the sky, checked what I saw that stood out for me... just to see if it lined up with what I was already feeling after all that.

We just had that full moon in Scorpio…

where shit comes up whether you asked for it or not.

Kind of like those socks. I hate pairing them.

They all end up in a pile, and I’ll deal with it later. Until one day you actually need the right pair and realize… yeah, that mattered more than I thought.

Then I noticed Neptune sitting way out there at the end of Pisces.

And to me, that just feels like there’s still a little haze to things.

Nothing wrong… just not as clear as you thought they were at first.

Which makes sense, because I literally grabbed two completely different shoes in the dark thinking I knew what I was doing. They were both shoes at least.

Then Pluto...

It is still moving, just slow. About to go retrograde.

So, that shift is coming… you can feel it… it’s just not in a rush.

Kind of like my plants. I had to repot them because they were getting top heavy. They needed space. Needed a little change to keep growing.

Not something to mess with every five minutes. Just something to support… and let settle.

More like… you’ve got a minute to notice what’s actually in front of you, make a small adjustment if you need to, and let the rest play out without jumping all over it.

So, like the socks…

fix what needs fixing ~Match the socks when it matters.

Like the shoes…

Turn the light on once in a while and grab the right pair of shoes.

Like the plants…

protect what you’ve already been growing and let it do its thing.

They have already been planted and put in motion.

And give things the space they need to settle into what they’re becoming without rushing the process.

And yeah.

There it is.

So, Put the Sock on the Correct Foot and Call It Growth...

Let that land for a second.

Now breathe.

~Kristi

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