The act of “dailiness” is one of the most important cyclical patterns we perform regularly in our lives. Life happens in an act of repetition over and over. It is the thousand small eye blinks of routineness to our lives. Nature awakens daily and shows us slight visible and invisible variations carving throughout the terrain of our world. Our personal inner and outer topographies are shaped the same way. The most important aspects of our lives; such as marriage, parenthood and career, are built from tiny daily, mundane moments. These moments in the aggregate amount to wonderful momentous meanings.
Based on our busy lives, we often prepare to learn new skills by attending workshops or educational classes yearly. These experiences are enlightening as many of us wait for these moments to satisfy our creative pursuits. The act of doing gets better as we regularly do what we are presented and educated to do. A practice of becoming regularly deliberate creates a deep inner spark and mastery within. This is achieved through the act of “dailiness”. Through embodied presence we mark what matters to us as well as how it matters, and then we decide to invest day-by-day. Everyone holds mundane aspects of life presenting “dailiness” that seem so arbitrary. At closer glance these items hold more weight than we know. The daily act of dropping children at school, making a nightly family meal, or brewing the morning coffee while enjoying time for solitude all, have small and large reverberating effects.
Other acts seemingly extravagant might be “meaning-making experiences” if practiced as acts of “dailiness”. Daily art creativity, journaling rituals, or any regular act of making something regardless of the magnitude, may initiate becoming part of one’s body of life meaningful. We can also analyze the “dailiness” of things that do not contribute to providing sustenance as we begin to carve out these habits that have seeped their way into the crevasses of our lives. We are what we do. Our daily work is a doorway. The process is sacred, as we begin them repeatedly each day. When we take a closer look at what we have allowed to become part of our “dailiness”, we can see how we are shaped.
We have all had moments when we have been moved away from the “dailiness” of our lives for an exciting venture only to miss the “dailiness” we already had. In these moments we can celebrate and return to “dailiness” over momentary thrills and honor the small building blocks that make our lives meaningful.
