Dear Kaleid Women,
Happy rainy Wednesday to you Atlanta ladies! We hope you find a way to either settle into the cozy or to happily anticipate the coming fall beauty.
At Kaleid, we endeavor to see ourselves, others, and our community through new lenses--embracing life’s shifts rather than resisting them--knowing that transformation always involves change.
Our name, Kaleid, is connected to the image of a kaleidoscope, a playful instrument that blends sight and light and color so that shifts yield unexpected beauty. As we say on our website “when life shifts, new beauty appears.” The etymology of the word “kaleidoscope” involves three Greek words that mean “beautiful form watcher.”
During our Foundations circle a couple of weeks ago, we talked about this idea and applied it to our own reality and desires. One of the Kaleid ladies who was with us, Lucy, wrote a poem that we offer to you today.
May you sense in Lucy’s thoughtful words the invitation to find beauty in life’s shifts. And, may you know that Kaleid is here as a space in which you can walk with other women who are looking for beauty in the turning, too.
Beautiful
Form
Watcher
Kalos
Eidos
Skopós
Kal-
eido-
scope
Beautiful
Form
Watcher
These shards are
Always falling
Always rising
Swirling together
In that great shape
Called “Circle”
Ever moving
Ever changing,
Each moment
Altogether unique,
Each moment
Its own beautiful form
A whole world
Contained within
A small
and
Simple
Tube
If it weren’t for
These two, tiny openings:
One for
The light,
The other for
My eye
I wouldn’t be
A beautiful
Form watcher;
I’d be
A watcher of
Something else entirely
Kalos
Eidos
Skopós
May God make me
A kaleidoscope
With you.
Have a great day, friend. Thanks for being a beautiful form watcher.
Gratefully,
The Kaleid Team