Riding the Wild Donkey

One of my favorite bloggers, Goddess Leonie of Goddess Guidebook.com, recently said something that struck me as both hilarious and profound as well as very timely in my life.

Leonie supports her family with her blog, artwork, etc. She took her dream and leaned so far into it that there was simply no other way of being. Last week she provided her readers with her own personal method for accomplishing - something she has done a lot of in the last few years. She calls it the Ride ze Wild Donkey method.

In Queensland, Australia where she lives there are these funny little critters we would call burros. They're shaggy and wily, living mostly out on the high wild plains, but occasionally one of these sly creatures will find its way into a well manicured paddock to take advantage of the lush grass and free security. Leonie says when your orderly, habitual thinking, dreaming and being is interrupted by one of these Wild Donkeys of an idea that comes out of nowhere and nags you and won't go away, that your only job is to get on it and ride.

Now, real wild donkeys aren't house broke, they aren't ridden easily and they don't play by the rules. So, you can be sure jumping on the back of that new thought or dream isn't gonna be easy and smooth. It's gonna take you on the ride of your life. Literally.

You can't plan out where the donkey is gonna go, in fact your well-laid plans are probably going to get trampled under its hooves as it rips up the grass of your manicured life. Your only job is to get on, hang on, and watch where it goes. The rest is up to the donkey. Ride it till it's done. And then get off.

Leonie, like me and everyone else, admits she's had plenty of good ideas that she didn't get on and ride.  The ones she wanted to wait on and digest and plan and think about. Those are the ones that are still in her inbox.

So get on that Wild Donkey and ride it! It came into your paddock for a reason. Be the person enjoying the ride, not the person wondering what the donkey means or waiting to get the conditions just right.


I'm pretty sure my Donkey is Red!

In Grace, (Master Osho says it's the Opposite of Gravity)

Kell