Sun is up, soft glow, filtering through leaves of gold, orange, chartreuse brown and red.
The lighting casts a gentleness easily missed, the birds sound subdued this morning and I wonder what might that mean?
The ordinary extraordinariness of another day. Nature is the main story though it doesn’t get a lot of press.
The suffering and violence from the previous days on our little planet won’t be washed away by any lighting no matter how beautiful.
I asked myself this morning, is there something I could do, say, write, that might help someone, somewhere? In times of crises, we all want to help, whatever little bit that might be.
Is it possible that the best thing to do today, is to sit still? To sink into (sync into) the silence and stillness underlying this world?
That space, here- right here - sill untouched by the chaos.
We never lose access to it, but we do need to tune in.
So, that’s what I did.
Even if your heart is aching, there is a soothing presence still available, still reassuring.
Maybe just 10 minutes, forget about finding out what’s going on in the maze of endless dead-ends inevitable in a dying world. Abandon rational thinking and dot-connecting and be with that underlying presence.
It will soothe your heart. It will calm your mind. It will fuel your body and it will connect you - no, it will remind you that you are already, always connected - to everyone else, to life and this planet and whatever we call that presence, we recognize it as good. We recognize it as true.
We can’t see it. We can’t pin it down. Yet somehow we know it as our very foundation.
Even in the chaos and sadness, the incomprehensible violence and confusion, there is still, much to be hopeful for.
Still.
Celia Farber and Charles Eisenstein below, both of which I appreciated.
I feel that what you wrote is profound, and stands on its own without the inclusion of Farber's and Eisenstein's posts. For what that's worth.
Nodding my head in agreement and breathing into stillness. These issues cannot be solved at the level at which they were created. We all need to turn inward, to return to the oft-forgotten power that exists within each one of us, before we begin to address any of this. Beautiful, Kathleen. Thank you.