Sometimes it’s hard to articulate the changes that are happening inside you and around you… they are flowing so subtly and incessantly, and emerge cumulatively and progressively.
Today, I feel like everything is all swirling around in spirals. My perception and proprioception, relationships to friends, family, & colleagues going through tough times, connection to food and what nourishes me, telepathic communication with my dog, the strategic filtering of incoming news & media, and my connection to the ever-changing landscape.
From subatomic particles to galaxies, from smoke to water, everything travels in spirals. Movement with a subtle and continually modified trajectory, constantly morphing into something new. You immediately notice it’s familiar but different, and before you can comprehend it intellectually, it has already dissipated, dissolved, re-formed into another something new… and on and on and on it goes.
It’s only hard to keep up when I try to explain it, or control it, or foolishly and in vain try to keep it from changing. Maybe it’s simply an awareness of the flow of life happening.
Occasionally, I have learned to let go of fear and just let the flow of things take me along. When I am successful, all feelings of overwhelm & struggle, of being rushed or worried, dissolve like smoke. Somehow everything that needs doing gets done. The rest doesn’t matter. I realize it never did.
Often, I find community, sometimes with like-minded humans, and other times with non-human people including birds, trees, sky and water. It’s a beautiful feeling.
It helps having the advantage of being near a creek and watching trees break winter dormancy. It also helps when I make time to honor the full moon, the equinox, my ancestors, and my many relationships. I hope you can too.