Stuff we talk about around here:
My superpower this week:
Believing that everything that is mine returns to me.
And finding out what that means.
More on that tomorrow.
In the meantime, what superpower do you wish for today? Let’s use what we know. And maybe we can add some new ones to the book of superpowers too.
Welcome: playing, frolicking, experimenting.
Not welcome: advice, analysis, any form of “have you tried…?”
Director of the Playground.
With duck.
Cure your freak-out moments so you can get more done! Visit The Destuckification Station.
Beat the habit without beating yourself up. Plus Magical Procrastination-Dissolving Fairy Wonder Dust.
Even when we know they’re just being horrid because it’s the only way they know to keep us safe, it still sucks when your monsters are around. The Monster Manual tells you exactly what to say so they will stop bugging you.
An event at which you get crazy amounts of stuff done in a short period of time, with support, love, hilarity and massive destuckification. The schedule is right here.
Twitter: elizabethhalt
I think I could use that one myself. Thank you.
I just, a little while ago, said that I wanted the ability to expand pockets of time so that it feels spacious and luxurious. It is already working. Superpowers are the best things ever.
Twitter: taraswiger
My superpower for today: staying in my shiny, illuminating force field.
(It looks like the thing you step on in Star Trek to be beamed somewhere…but portable. When I step on it, the space around me lights up in a vertical beam and I become invisible and also, more present)
Twitter: maryanndevine
‘Believing that everything that is mine returns to me.’
I’ll have some of that, too.
Also: seeing clearly how all the threads can be woven into something new.
xo
Twitter: chaoslaughs
Superpower of the day: being green.
Related things: doing the plant dance // that bubbly seed of excitement // the tendrils of my tiny sweet things // my gold-painted toenails (which whisper, ‘rally!’)
Also related: feeling my force field as a verdant tree canopy // the flow of that-which-is-mine returning (many thanks for the inspiration!)
xox
Today’s Superpowers:
-the ability to anticipate what the people around me need before they need it
-the ability to redirect my kids’ on a negative track
-my beautiful curly hair
I recently made a Mail Box to the Universe. I have added one message. But I asked just yesterday, to have my Superpowrrs revealed to me. It’s not in the Mailbox yet. But I am sending it out anyway.
Twitter: shfitch
Today I want the superpower of surprising myself with my own delightful creativity.
Twitter: persnicket
My superpower is that simply paying attention to things will make them happen. Sometimes work is not even involved! I just look at a thing and it dissolves into “not a big deal.” With a big giant happy relaxed sigh, like slipping into the best hot bath ever.
The superpower I wish for is ‘the power to keep things simple’.
And I am borrowing Elizabeth’s ‘the ability to expand pockets of time’, too.
Twitter: Virtuallori
Oooo, yes, expanding time. And squishing sideways into two dimensions so stuff flying at me goes whizzing by without even noticing I’m there.
Twitter: tapleyruth
Oh, I want to play!
I just recently added “Today I want the superpower of…” to my own version of “Hello Day”. This morning I asked for the superpower of knowing just what to say in any interaction – including knowing when to say nothing.
Also, I am borrowing from Elizabeth and Jesse for abilities to expand pockets of time for more spaciousness and making things happen with just my attention.
Twitter: CrankyFibroGirl
I would like the superpower of romancing-myself, my project, my relationships.
Twitter: Hannah_Savannah
Today’s Superpower! (coming in hindsight from this part of the world)
The Superpower of Patience and Communication and Boundaries, too.
A gwish for tomorrow’s Superpower:
The Superpower of Protective Phone Calling
Twitter: TheRealSqualor
Today I want the super power of balancing play with work, and better yet, making work into play.
Twitter: brianaaldrich
Today I want the superpower of feeling super (hehe) laid back about a few things. Unruffled. Oh! Realizing that the tone of this feeling has a Duuuuuuuude Lebowski kind of ring to it.
Yes, like that!
Twitter: Bikeblisschick
Redirecting anxiety disguised as sugar cravings. Mmmmm, salad.
Focus in an environment of competing demands.
Knowing just what I need to recharge.
Napping! Sneaking naps and waking up when planned.
(I used to be able to do this, need again!)
Twitter: fairbetty
Today I’m wishing I had the superpower of having a bottomless imagination… and no embarrassment about sharing it.
Twitter: gocreativedream
Oh thank you.
I just felt this little door open up and everything that was mine returned to me.
Which makes it easier for me to use today’s superpower:
GROUNDING
My superpower today is to know exactly to whom I should be speaking.
Twitter: subtleharmony
Right now I wish I had the superpower to turn back time just long enough so that I *didn’t* make the phone call I made a few minutes ago.
I want the complementary power, too: releasing what is not mine back into the wild!
Also, Cherilyn, all of yours! Yeah!
Twitter: spiralsongkat
My superpower: the power to transform anxiety into sparkling, energetic action, leaving deep peace in its wake.
Kathleen, that is an awesome superpower. I’d like some of that, along with the ability to stay awake during these transition-y fall-winter days, or finish work uber-fast so I can sleep as much as I’d like!
Oooh, I want some of each!
The superpower I want is to be able to make things better, wihtout *working* on them, just by being with them or in them or paying attention to them.
I’d also like the superpower of making good things happen, agin without working to make them happen, but with conscious awareness and by conscious choice.
Twitter: choirqueer
I am wishing for the superpower of joyfully finishing the things I start, releasing them into the world satisfied with their level of completion.
Oh! Oh! I also want the superpower of expanding time! I want to be able to expand days and weeks to whatever length I need, and have it feel spacious and luxurious (I’m sorry for shamelessly copying Elizabeth’s wording, but it fits exactly).
I would also like the superpower of making work go faster, and the superpower of fulfilling big goals all the time without even noticing it because I’m too busy having fun.
I am just having fun contemplating all of the possible meanings of “Everything that is mine returns to me.”
Twitter: lichtstrom_
My superpower is to be able to do 3 things at once.
Except that doesn’t actually happen, so I think the superpower that I want is from a NaNoWriMo fundraising email: I want to have Literary Abandon. Actually, I’d like to embody it.
Please.
;)
P.S. Can you tell that I have a deadline coming up? :)
Twitter: dmstauber
I want the superpower of caring without worrying or taking responsibility.
Twitter: making_space
The superpower of saying farewell, wholeheartedly.
With the entirely related superpower of being able to write farewell poetry that is all mythic and Celtic inspired and tolkienesque….
- Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!
- May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
You gotta admit, the dude came up with some nice words to ease the pain of parting!!
Superpower!
Twitter: making_space
Also: the superpower of being as non-impressed by my amygdala/lizard-brain’s ability to throw up warnings of Impending Doom and Imminent Death as I am by it’s ability to keep my heart beating and my diaphragm moving.
The superpower of awesome turnaround: being grateful for my lizard brain! My lizard brain keeps me alive in a thousand useful ways!!! Gratitude to my inner lizard! Instead of just resenting it… Hmmmm… it might at least make the perpetual string of ID&ID warnings that accompany automatic breathing a bit easier to bear. Maybe I can use every warning of doom as a reminder to say thanks for beating my heart so faithfully lizard brain. You’re a good and faithful lizard who does good duty.
I feel skeptical about how thoroughly I’m going to be able to believe that… but I guess that’s why they’re superpowers not ordinarypowers…
Twitter: SusPup
I’d like the superpower of being non-distractable. Indistractable. It’s like indestructible, but not so challenging or confrontational.
Basically I want to be wholly present with whatever I’m doing, and to see things through, and to feel content at the end of the day.
Twitter: dmstauber
@Claire P: Mai govannen!
Twitter: simonethinks
MY SUPERPOWER TODAY: being able to see that everything is hilarious.
Twitter: annabarnett
Today’s superpower/new reality show: Dancing with Iguanas.
Twitter: chemieemma
I’ve been compiling a list of superpowers from all the great answers here. I would like to have the superpower of accepting love while still gently but firmly rejecting the way it is offered.
Twitter: zirconium
The superpower I have: providing ease/comfort/calm to other people through both sheer presence and mad skillz.
The superpower I want: to finish IOUs and I-want-tos without cheating myself of sleep or other aspects of self-care.
Twitter: elizabethhalt
Miss P: Oh my goodness, yes! I LOVE that superpower! I am borrowing that one for my list for sure.
Wow. WOW.
As I read this post, I thought, “I would simply like the superpower of courage to stop lurking and actually comment on one of Havi’s posts.”
And it worked! I can’t believe it worked! I’m actually commenting.
So now I would like the superpower of believing that my comment is worthy of staying here (even though it’s a few days late and I don’t think I’m evolved enough/cool enough to contribute to this amazing community, and and and…)
Next I’ll need the superpower of gathering up the courage to comment on another post in the future.
I would also like the superpower of lightheartedness.
Twitter: making_space
Carol! You’re here!! We’ve been waiting. See you around. Xoxo
Twitter: Hallowspite
Today my super power is the ability to put the past and the future aside, and to not pick it up until I consciously decide to.
Claire P,
You just made my day!
Thank you.
-Carol