Life Unfolding and Black Bean Taco Salad

The Mindful Kitchen by Heidi Barr

Raise your hand if you have ever been impatient when it comes to seeing results. 

Everyone raises their hands, including me. 

Humans seem wired to strive, to grow, to seek improvement. (Even if we’re not actually wired for this, that’s what our culture teaches us to do. Unpacking that is a column for another day...) When it comes to growth, or perhaps we can say “positive evolution toward wellbeing”, so often the desire is to just get there already. Make the desired changes and be done with it. Yet every human is a unique, continually unfolding, work of art — YOU are a continually unfolding work of art — a life continually coming more fully into itself.  That positive evolution of maintaining optimal wellbeing is a lifelong project. It can feel like the road is entirely uphill and bumpy, but taking one step after another (no matter how small) keeps you moving toward the good stuff. 

You are living a life in progress, and life unfolds one step at a time. 

Note: Cultivating patience and the…