A Book of Days : Tracking the Seasons of the Spirit
Enter The Book of Days. The Book of Days is a book filled with blank spaces that are delimited only by numbers, each set of numbers corresponding to the days in the various months of our year and each set is so named, from January through December. There are no indications of the days, Monday through Sunday, for this is a calendar whose only agenda is anniversaries. This is a book in which you record in a succinct fashion the significant events of your life. This is a book in which you are recording, by extension, the seasons of your spirit, the ephemeral energy that inspires your being and its relationship to the material world of pattern with which it has chosen to interact.
Spirit is here, we imagine, for the thrills, embodying to experience that which it cannot experience without a material form. Spirit is pure energy, diffuse and vast; humanity is quite the opposite and life in a body could provide all manner of variations that would not otherwise occur for spirit. So it stands to reason that our spirit’s desire would be reflected in the high and low points of life as those moments carry extremes of feeling emotion which apices and nadirs would resonate with the intrinsic nature of the spirit self. They would serve to remind spirit of its pure self and in doing so make life seem worthwhile for every part of us: body, mind, soul and spirit.
Keeping a Book of Days, reviewing parts of it when you make the occasional new entry, binds you to the bigger picture of your life and to your spirit self. It can even, eventually, bring you comfort in that knowingess.
If you cannot find a Book of Days (I could find only one book decades ago when I began keeping mine, The Faberge Book of Days) you can easily create one simply by dividing a notebook or sketchbook into sections. In fact, based on my own experiences with the ‘published’ book that I have, you might be better off creating your own as you can allow all the space you like for your entries.
