This Week's Mindful Morsel 🍪 | November 12, 2025 — follow your whimsy

Happy sweet Wednesday to your lovely being 💜

As I’m sitting down to write this, I’m cozy inside watching blustery snow fall and flitty birds gather snacks at the bird feeder outside my window. I love this season so much.

I find such joy in the magic and possibilities that snow brings, and I think we could all use a little extra oomph to tap into our imaginations right now.

Imagination might seem to be in opposition to mindfulness: letting your mind wander and dance with ideas that have no bearing on the present, dreaming of things that aren’t current reality, and creating fantasies that have no sure-footed roots. But I don’t think imagination is a foe of mindfulness. I think they need each other quite deeply and fervently.

How can we ever find joy in a world where we don’t have the ability to see magic and where we can’t imagine our wildest dreams? How can we even entertain possibilities that imagination inspires if we can’t be with ourselves in the here and now? How can we ever turn inward with wonder if we aren’t excited at what we might meet there?

At some of the lowest points in my practice, where I find I’m physically showing up but I’m not all in, it’s because I’m stuck in drab practical mode finding it difficult to connect with my dreaming self — I get too serious and too structured and too intense about routine and security and adulting, and I rob myself of my own whimsy.

And baby… I’ve got whimsy coming out the wazoo. But when it gets buried in there, it feels lightyears beyond reach.

Which is all the more reason to seize the moment when inspiration comes around (whether that’s in the form of frozen falling water or something else). So follow your whimsy and get silly. Daydream and catch snowflakes on your tongue. Let your imagination run wild and free.

I’d love to hear how this lands for you and what you dream up, so feel free to share :)

Embracing all the magic of possibility,