Awakening in Green
Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely.
Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature.
~Jeb Dickerson
Greetings to our friends & community,
Gobsmacked with awakened green. Early most every morning I walk the Douglas Preserve. It started out as therapy for the young, shy, fearful rescue dog, Huxley. It was meant to build his confidence, run and romp off some nervousness, and build physical strength. His Douglas romps quickly evolved into an essential piece my well-being. Now I walk myself and invite Tucker and Huxley to come along.
It has been dry, dry, dusty, dusty, brown, brown, but we still love its tangled wildness, the slow reclaiming of asphalt and concrete, and the sound of the sea below. Now it is green, green — a green that seemed so ready to pop forth that within hours of a good rain it made its move. It has taken a little longer for the lichen on rocks to bloom and tender new growth on trees to appear, but bloom and grow they do.
I walk in awe, in awe of the regenerative power of the life force; at resilience so generously demonstrated. The dew drenched green inspires me and I go looking for any dry, dusty and brown bits in myself and tap into that regenerative power and resilience and green them up again. I ponder my own life and wonder what seeds are incubating just below the surface and what will be the ‘rain’ that calls them forth.
The first days of February are one of the great cross-quarter days which make up the wheel of the year, Candelmas or Imbolc, depending on tradition. They fall midway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox and for many are considered the beginning of spring. They mark the transformation from death to life, the awakening of hibernating animals, and the return of migrating birds and fish.
The call to awakening has begun.
Listen for it and what it awakens in you.
Happy Valentine’s Day!Happy Chinese New Year!Happy Tibetan New Year!Happy Leap Day!Happy Green!
Teresa, spirit of Thule, Tucker, Huxley and all at Paradise Found
