They surface as palpable and somewhat surprising emotions.
I'm access.able, open, and allowing me to be so....which is good. Right?
This past year has held so much significant change for me. I am in awe of how much a single being can move through in the space of months following months...moments touching moments.
I moved onto this mountain in Swannanoa, NC on November 1, 2011.
This landing came in the wake of my having moved
out of -
my community of 10 years,
out of-
the unfolding and dissolving of a year plus romantic partnership in which I had invested Soul level imaginings into,
& out of-
a cross country journey comprised of experiencing the setting up and dismantling of 'home' four times - in three different states - in one year, sweet North Carolina now being the third.
IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME.
Well, as blessings would have it...((THANK YOU)) Lucas and Caroline arrived on this mountain the very same day as myself! Until two short hours ago...they lived a literal hoot and hike away from me.
Their presence upon my arrival added an instant element of curiosity, possibility, creativity, wonderment, and community.
IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME.
Well, as blessings would have it...((THANK YOU)) Lucas and Caroline arrived on this mountain the very same day as myself! Until two short hours ago...they lived a literal hoot and hike away from me.
Their presence upon my arrival added an instant element of curiosity, possibility, creativity, wonderment, and community.
Upon first landing in this Heavenly Mountain world, my nervous system was overly alive and alert, my heart deeply tender, and my sense of self somewhat displaced. In the midst of transitions like these it's my experience that time both speeds up and stands still. Between these two fluidly flowing rivers I've been healing. I've been held in the simple and potent power of love.
LOVE.
Yes, I know, in my circle of sharing love may seem quite common place...a yada yada yak yak yak kind of assumption that is commonly thrown around as the norm. But I tell you friends, this love thing is sweet and power.full.
In the past six months, for me, love has been served up on heaping plates of steaming goodness.
Love has traveled from my eyes and been met in the middle by friends sharing music from their hearts and voice boxes. Allowing unnecessary story lines to unfold and escalate simply for our laughters sake is the name of the game.
Love has been spread atop gluten free pizza crusts with the initial "capital E" traced in sauce by yummy five year old fingers.
Love has echoed a rhythmic drumming in my ears as hammer guides nail and creativity is built, literally, with two hands and a huge heart into the vision of future, family, roots & home.
In every direction....LIFE!
Today time feels irreverently still as I watch my sweet friend and neighbor Lucas drive away from our little mountain neighborhood. This eccentrically perfect creature is on to new yet familiar discoverings, cross continent from where we have cultivated a timeless connection with nature and a kind of slow savory sweetness that sustains our daily musings about - well....important stuff that really matters.
Whapio ((my midwifery teacher)) has been reminding us about the Tao of Midwifery. What Clarissa Pinkola Estes describes as the Birth*Life*Death*Birth cycle.
In short...
In short...
Things arise and the midwife lets them come.
Things leave and the midwife lets them go...
Laying no claim..and therefore everything lasts forever.
Laying no claim..and therefore everything lasts forever.
COLOR.FULL JOURNEY Lucas! Please allow adventure to dish you up a huge helping of everything, and when we meet again exaggerate it to the fullest. I love how the story of life oozes, squirts, seeps, dances, emanates, sweats, and staggers through YOU....and smooch Miss Caroline for ME please.
