I’m definitely blessed to have found them all! It does take a lot of effort and energy to find your people and maintain the beautiful connections. It doesn’t just happen , you really have to search out those who are part of your tribe and circles in this life ♥️♥️♥️
What a lovely compilation of people’s thoughts. It must be strange to be a leapling and celebrating birthdays on different days. Thank you everyone and to Jesse for posting 🙏
This Leap Day we were in the hospital as our daughter got a GTube.
While stressful, ordered in lamb curry eaten on mushy hospital plates cast it’s own elegiac memories forwards in time to shade future Leap Days. So a day when joy and anti joy mingled like warring strands of a double helix.
There are some wonderful ideas here, but me, being a melancholy sort, spent the day remembering those I loved who have left us since last Leap day yr, & will I still be in this mortal form myself on the next…I will be 76 that yr in May🤔🩷☮️🕊️ luv & peace
My lead day was like the rest of the working days. With this post I realize that I have to stop and give thanks, first, for your leap day post. This makes me be a part of this wonderful world. Second, thank for all the inspiring comments to this post.
Thank you, Jesse! I'm a leapling and this is the most beautiful gift. I will cherish all the words and collective leaps (I just happened to leap prior to reading! Not as easy at 68 as it was in my childhood Martha Graham dance classes, but the spirit was willing!).
I loved it all. I still want to read all the entries. I loved the photo of you Jesse... Leaping!
Gregory McIntosh's ideas of using leap day as a day to embark on something you have always wanted to try and use that installment of 4 years to see and reflect... What has changed. What have I been creating that I never thought possible or gave myself time to do. Special thanks to all the leapers!
I had a beautiful Leap Day. I follow Astro currents so I take cues from aspects to mark my “to do lists”, be it a personal thing, or social, family, etc. and as applicable. This Leap Day was tied to an art project inception/incentive/commitment/action/interchange of action and recommitment to completion/release. The initial commitment came in Dec 2020 after having COVID and having been asked to leave a creative job along with many coworkers. I then took that as an opportunity to be committed to my own creative work that I’d had in my heart for years. As I’ve been working, with different particular aspects, especially those hitting strongly on my chart, I’d take a breath, meditate and strengthen my pact with myself and my art expression, this project. On Leap Day, I started with the mind inhale of the my breath recommitting internally. Then I sat with a trusted friend talking about my research, showing my drawings and mentally breathing out my project into the Universe. With each spoken word I gave life to my project so she became a living entity outside of my conceptional space and foundational work. Yesterday, we leaped forward into the atmosphere and transformed her into a reality now validated by being named. A recommitment has been made, she has been spoken of, been writ about here. The Great Leap Forward is done! Onwards and upwards! 🙏🫶 Gratitude for letting me share this here. 🙏
I started to paint late last night with some trepidation……I have been painting for many years but since the Covid lockdown I have sadly lost so much of my motivation and confidence . Your post about Leap Day and time along with today’s start of Spring has opened a little window of hope and determination to pick up my brushes again even if I then spend a lot of time contemplating my next brush stroke ! I like to paint trees and all things that move me and ask to be painted . My work is dofficult to desctobe and varied ! The natural world, angels, icons and portraits ……I will see where this leap year leads me . 🍃
This was marvelous! I love your prompts, so generous. I have to admit I didn't look at this post until today, March 1st, so i am reading Leap year adjacent and this inspires me with energy. Thank you Jesse, truly wonderful
Ohhh yay this makes me so happy! :))) I’m so happy you like the prompts. There are no rules for them of course and these can be Friday or weekend prompts, or something to keep in mind and come back to anytime, or make your own inspired by them, anything at all!! If anything comes up please do share!! I would love to read any ideas or further thoughts you have ☺️☺️thank you so so much!!
Yesterday on Feb 29, I flew back to Northeastern PA to be with my wife and dog Gidget. I was away for the entire month of February. Originally I was to fly back on Feb 28 but my flight was cancelled due to bad weather. Being gone for so long made me appreciate how lucky I am to have a loving family to come back to. I guess you could say I leaped from the west coast to the east coast on leap day.
It's nice to have these virtual meditations and writings shared around such a weird event. I was surprised that only one person touched on thoughts of our measurements of time and nobody mentioned the cosmic dance we are in that challenges those measurements and concept of time. A fascinating calibration/solution. The journey around the sun 356.25 days. I like to take a moment on a leap day/leap year to think about how we are just mayflies floating in a large cosmic soup for the briefest and most beautiful moment. Time and how we chase it can come back tomorrow but for a moment, in this weird time-slip bonus day, we can more easily glimpse at and sit in infinity. And soon it will be spring xo
I didn't know all of this. But coincedentuly i found the first little biografie, in Dutch, From Arthur Rimbaud. (free library in a street ) What i never would have noticed, if i didn't read posts of your mother, and now i learned about leap day from you. And it was the day i first walked without my stick (new hip) so it was a remarkeble day after all. 😄
What a fun read! And how lucky are you to have so many cool people in your life that inspire you!? Love this :)
I’m definitely blessed to have found them all! It does take a lot of effort and energy to find your people and maintain the beautiful connections. It doesn’t just happen , you really have to search out those who are part of your tribe and circles in this life ♥️♥️♥️
lovely to read all these comments capturing what this day can mean and does mean
What a lovely compilation of people’s thoughts. It must be strange to be a leapling and celebrating birthdays on different days. Thank you everyone and to Jesse for posting 🙏
I know!! I think of this and try to imagine, it’s wild to perceive and they don’t get our thoughts often enough :))
Fantastic photo!
Time chains moments to years
Cinj still still amongst birch trees
The twins in Jules elbow
Lounging here at ACH
Life’s ineffable logic
This Leap Day we were in the hospital as our daughter got a GTube.
While stressful, ordered in lamb curry eaten on mushy hospital plates cast it’s own elegiac memories forwards in time to shade future Leap Days. So a day when joy and anti joy mingled like warring strands of a double helix.
Remember the joy? The anti-joy? Both? Neither?
There are some wonderful ideas here, but me, being a melancholy sort, spent the day remembering those I loved who have left us since last Leap day yr, & will I still be in this mortal form myself on the next…I will be 76 that yr in May🤔🩷☮️🕊️ luv & peace
My lead day was like the rest of the working days. With this post I realize that I have to stop and give thanks, first, for your leap day post. This makes me be a part of this wonderful world. Second, thank for all the inspiring comments to this post.
Thank you, Jesse! I'm a leapling and this is the most beautiful gift. I will cherish all the words and collective leaps (I just happened to leap prior to reading! Not as easy at 68 as it was in my childhood Martha Graham dance classes, but the spirit was willing!).
I loved it all. I still want to read all the entries. I loved the photo of you Jesse... Leaping!
Gregory McIntosh's ideas of using leap day as a day to embark on something you have always wanted to try and use that installment of 4 years to see and reflect... What has changed. What have I been creating that I never thought possible or gave myself time to do. Special thanks to all the leapers!
I had a beautiful Leap Day. I follow Astro currents so I take cues from aspects to mark my “to do lists”, be it a personal thing, or social, family, etc. and as applicable. This Leap Day was tied to an art project inception/incentive/commitment/action/interchange of action and recommitment to completion/release. The initial commitment came in Dec 2020 after having COVID and having been asked to leave a creative job along with many coworkers. I then took that as an opportunity to be committed to my own creative work that I’d had in my heart for years. As I’ve been working, with different particular aspects, especially those hitting strongly on my chart, I’d take a breath, meditate and strengthen my pact with myself and my art expression, this project. On Leap Day, I started with the mind inhale of the my breath recommitting internally. Then I sat with a trusted friend talking about my research, showing my drawings and mentally breathing out my project into the Universe. With each spoken word I gave life to my project so she became a living entity outside of my conceptional space and foundational work. Yesterday, we leaped forward into the atmosphere and transformed her into a reality now validated by being named. A recommitment has been made, she has been spoken of, been writ about here. The Great Leap Forward is done! Onwards and upwards! 🙏🫶 Gratitude for letting me share this here. 🙏
I started to paint late last night with some trepidation……I have been painting for many years but since the Covid lockdown I have sadly lost so much of my motivation and confidence . Your post about Leap Day and time along with today’s start of Spring has opened a little window of hope and determination to pick up my brushes again even if I then spend a lot of time contemplating my next brush stroke ! I like to paint trees and all things that move me and ask to be painted . My work is dofficult to desctobe and varied ! The natural world, angels, icons and portraits ……I will see where this leap year leads me . 🍃
This was marvelous! I love your prompts, so generous. I have to admit I didn't look at this post until today, March 1st, so i am reading Leap year adjacent and this inspires me with energy. Thank you Jesse, truly wonderful
Ohhh yay this makes me so happy! :))) I’m so happy you like the prompts. There are no rules for them of course and these can be Friday or weekend prompts, or something to keep in mind and come back to anytime, or make your own inspired by them, anything at all!! If anything comes up please do share!! I would love to read any ideas or further thoughts you have ☺️☺️thank you so so much!!
Yesterday on Feb 29, I flew back to Northeastern PA to be with my wife and dog Gidget. I was away for the entire month of February. Originally I was to fly back on Feb 28 but my flight was cancelled due to bad weather. Being gone for so long made me appreciate how lucky I am to have a loving family to come back to. I guess you could say I leaped from the west coast to the east coast on leap day.
This is so beautiful and important. What will you do to celebrate when you’re home? ♥️♥️♥️
This afternoon we are taking Gidget to the park. Tomorrow we have tickets to see The Cher Show and then dinner. So grateful for my wonderful family!
It's nice to have these virtual meditations and writings shared around such a weird event. I was surprised that only one person touched on thoughts of our measurements of time and nobody mentioned the cosmic dance we are in that challenges those measurements and concept of time. A fascinating calibration/solution. The journey around the sun 356.25 days. I like to take a moment on a leap day/leap year to think about how we are just mayflies floating in a large cosmic soup for the briefest and most beautiful moment. Time and how we chase it can come back tomorrow but for a moment, in this weird time-slip bonus day, we can more easily glimpse at and sit in infinity. And soon it will be spring xo
I didn't know all of this. But coincedentuly i found the first little biografie, in Dutch, From Arthur Rimbaud. (free library in a street ) What i never would have noticed, if i didn't read posts of your mother, and now i learned about leap day from you. And it was the day i first walked without my stick (new hip) so it was a remarkeble day after all. 😄