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There’s a tree that stands midway up our driveway. It’s been dead for several years, but it is still beautiful, and still standing tall. It feels like a totem to me.
It is a sacred presence that welcomes us home.
What are the things that are a sacred presence in your life?
This is the view outside of my office window. It is an east view, so I often see the rising sun from here.
This morning my eye was drawn to the hills beyond that fence.
I was asking myself: What are the Wild Places, towards that horizon, that are waiting to be explored?
I can feel the beginnings of a need to explore some new territories.
What are the wild places that are calling to you?
I woke up to fog today. The earth is cold and the air is warm, and that is when we are socked in with fog.
Whenever I walk out into fog, I am reminded of so many times in my life when I feel like I am in a fog. These are times when the next step may be clear, but the whole path is not.
Fog also reminds me that it will lift eventually, and then I will be able to see the way ahead.
I feel like fog is an invitation to trust that the way will be revealed in good time, and that I am still on my path, even though I can’t see it.
What is foggy in your life, and what would it be like if you relaxed into it?
It is Spring Equinox in the Northwestern Hemisphere.
Your new Spring Alignment Kit is here. It’s my gift to you, with the wish that you may hear the voice of your soul’s longings.
The reflections in the kit are an invitation for you to:
As you align with your true self, you will attend to what really matters in your life.
Enjoy this connection with your inner wisdom as you do these reflections.
I call this the Dancing Tree, or maybe it is the Startled Tree.
Whatever it is, it is a character of the landscape, and it makes me laugh when I see it.
What is making you laugh today?
The woodpeckers have started to drum on the trees. This is what they do in the Spring, to establish their territories.
To me, the drumming of the woodpeckers symbolizes awakening.
It is one of the early signs that Nature is awakening from the deep slumber of Winter.
What is awakening in you?
When I go out on my morning walk now, there is lots of birdsong.
The birds are beginning to stir.
What is stirring in you?
This morning, the woods are alive with large flocks of migrating Robins and Red-Winged Blackbirds. Their song fills the air, and it lifts my spirits, after months of quiet mornings.
We are in the Inbetween Time again, as the seasons begin to transition from Winter into Spring. One day there is snow, and the next, the sun is warming the earth and the bulbs are beginning to break through frozen soil.
There is a going back and forth, in these Inbetween Times.
Sometimes there is a going back and forth for us in our lives, when we are going through transitions, and this is OK, as we begin to grow in the fullness of who we are becoming.
Where, in your life, are you in the Inbetween Time?
I sketched these Snowbells just after they came up this year.
These bulbs amaze and delight me, because to me, they are little beacons of hope.
They come up in February and subject themselves to all kinds of weather: blizzards, fierce winds, snow and ice, and they still survive, year after year.
They are evidence that Spring is on its way.
What gives you hope?
As I began my walk, all I could think of was what a dreary day it was.
Within a couple of minutes, I was walking by the pond, and these swirling patterns in the ice caught my attention. Nature never ceases to amaze me with its beauty and unique moments.
What surprises are waiting for you today?
