this week has been an emotional roller coaster and my latest Substack explores the journey through time spent with Birds and Water. Grief, loss, compassion…and gratitude. i hope you will take a few minutes to read. perhaps you will find a nugget of inspiration. and, as always, i hope you are taking care of your hearts. a taste:
“Crow’s nests are evident in bare treetops from late Autumn until the leafing of Spring once again secludes them in a panoply of greens and reds. i imagine this wondrous Corvid scanning the landscape for food, company, and souls ready to be taken behind the veil (that is their call, after all) from their pinnacle, keen dark eyes, always aware. always.
“i’m finally settled into my new nest. a ground nest because of course Birds build nests everywhere. “bird-like” is not something i would have consider myself. more Earth and Water person than Air…and yet as i’ve aged, i’m drawn to both the physical wonder of Birds and the metaphors that are wrapped around them. i can see why humans have found inspiration in them since, perhaps, our first breath. i’ve written poems about flying. about Icarus. that desire to be free and lift off the ground. it is powerful.
“to move with the ease of Water is also powerful. […] this is all to say that being by Water offers me perspective. what am i in control of? standing by River, listening to the movement of Water, singing of Birds, noticing fallen Trees shifting the current, the all of the ecosystem…it is in constant change. i am a part of it. i breathe it in. i see myself in the flow of my own life. i head home to my nest, my blood flowing more like a gentle stream. grateful.”
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