I’ve been waiting and watching and waiting and watching for this old tree to fall. For years it stood decaying where it stood.. held by the limbs of the tree beside it. This tree became a metaphor for much of my life. I walked past it and would debate pushing it over and instead I waited because intuitively I knew my two hands were not meant to control its time to fall to the forest floor. This tree was so dead, so rotten, that even birds would not make their home in it.. and yet it stood.. winds blew and it stood.. rains came and it stood.. ice, snow, heat, and hail.. it just held on.. until now. I feel myself rejoicing as once again it’s metaphor - it’s story is not lost on me. I will say beyond a doubt I am glad to see the hole in the Canopy this tree has left. Sayonara old friend. Let the new saplings grow! Thanks for the medicine and teachings about holding on and knowing when to let go.
Precious Light
I woke to tears this morning. My own tears. I had no reason to cry and yet, they flowed.. I don't know if they were happy tears or sad tears.. it doesn't even matter. When I left for camp this morning I turned to face this path. I have walked this path all of my life as this road has always been the road we used to enter the woods even as a child. Looking upon it, the trees held drops of rain that sparkled like the tears held in my eyes. Poison ivy and muscadine now grows over my old road as it should.. I realized in this moment like much of my life, this path has been retired. There is a new path before me. A less worn down road. A place of adventure and possibility. Fare the well old road may you live held in the past..
Wetland
When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.
~Tuli Kupferberg
Nectar
I'm not the same soul I once was. A lot has changed. A lot had to change. So you shouldn't expect out of me what I embodied in the past. For that part of me no longer exists.
~ unknown Author
... (this quote and this butterfly are the representations of a new beginning into unchartered places of myself as I discover who I truly am and a new journey. I am leaving the caterpillar and cocoon behind - emerging a beautiful butterfly. Here's to fully drinking in the nectar of life and light as I break into a full on new embodiment of myself. Do not think of me the same because a lot has changed - it had to change - and the person I was in the past is not the person I am today.)
