Let go of “when” and be joy now.

So often, the mind whispers:

“I will be happy when…” 

When the schedule clears. 

When the to-do list is complete. 

When life finally feels in order.

But joy doesn’t wait on circumstances. Joy, contentment, love, peace — these live inside of us, in the spaciousness of our own being.

Autumn makes this visible. The trees let go of their leaves, each one drifting to the earth. What looks like an ending is also a beginning. The leaf nourishes the soil. Its vibrant red is beautiful precisely because it will not last.

This is the wisdom of impermanence: everything changes. And when we stop clinging or resisting, what’s left is joy.

The leaf doesn’t fight against the fall. It has given itself fully to the season, and now it lets go. Can we do the same — trust the cycle, soften into change, and discover joy in the very act of releasing?

The leaf doesn’t fight against the fall. It has given itself fully to the season, and now it lets go. Can we do the same — trust the cycle, soften into change, and discover joy in the very act of releasing?

The space between grasping and resisting is joy.

🌿 A Gentle Practice

Pause three times today. Take one conscious breath. Notice something around you that is changing — a leaf, a cloud, your own breath. Ask: “Can I allow joy to be here, in the very fact of change?”

Joy is not separate from impermanence. It is found right in the middle of it — as ordinary and extraordinary as a leaf falling to the earth.

With peaceful presence, 

Paige