Spring has sprung here in New Hampshire! Everything is bursting out and in blossom. Green in every shade and hue graces the entire landscape and there is such an energy to get up, get out and do. Contemplating what my next "thing" on the list was, I sat for a moment.

And sure enough, that simple act of sitting and pausing stopped me in my tracks. It is the day of sabbath for many, the day of well keeping for me. Sitting and stopping I felt my breath shift, deepen, steady. My heart open ~ a wave of gratitude for the wisdom and beauty of the way my life continues to unfold. Challenges, blessings, opportunites, setbacks. So much wisdom and guidance when I stop and see the overall flow of it and how the moments weave together. Deep feelings surface in the act of sitting quietly....taking a moment of …

Today was a different type of silent Sunday spent with our brand new grandaughter. Holding her today I was especially aware of our interconnectedness. And aware that tending the wellspring of life is working with the substance from which we all come. I am deeply grateful for the continuing awarenesses with the well tending.

Holding the Earth Body

in our hearts

in our hands

Decomposition

cracks

her soil and soul

Meditating this morning, sitting in the silence of a newly fallen blanket of snow. How can there be such complete silence and simultaneously such noise in the world? I can feel the chaos, I can feel the damage being done, the fear radiating out around us. And yet, here, in our forest, the newly babbling water of our little river is the only sound.

Following the guidance in my daily meditation book by Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening, I breathe in and tighten my grasp on two stones – one a crystal given to me by a friend after my Mom recently passed, a stone for transformation; the other, a pebble from our river, green and black, that has for years now represented my “future self”, the self I aspire to be, from a silent retreat with Tara Brach.  I breathe out and open my palms and my…