I write to you from my quiet kitchen table on a windy spring day. The Valley is resplendent with a carpet of yellow Balsam-root and many other lovely wildflowers, it brings such joy to my heart. The renewed and refreshed feeling that spring offers each year, is especially comforting in this time of uncertainty and isolation. May you be blessed today as you take in spring and feel her grace.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and I am sure the Mother Gaia is pleased that we are treading on her very lightly these days.
The oceans are quiet and the whales are harmonizing their songs, the skies are clearer than they have been in years allowing the full migration of the birds to have fewer obstacles and fly freely. My senses seem enhanced, as though responding to the heightened purity of nature.
Purity comes through simplicity. Simple living in these pandemic times means we have and do less, and as a result we enjoy more. By clearing out things that make our lives and minds busy, we purify our inner landscape, honoring what is most important.
I hope you can take time time to create more space to breathe, imagine and listen to the collective longings of our hearts and souls. To bring healing to our lives and to the great Mother Earth.
I want to share an Earth day story from our neighborhood that reflects the true nature of simply giving our time.....
Over the weekend a young girl in our neighborhood organized an Earth Day activity of cleaning the entire length of the Rendezvous Road from OCEC to the road’s end. She sent an email to all the neighbors on our road. A resounding response by 17 families said YES to participate in the garbage pickup. What joy we had greeting neighbors with our socially distanced waves and later receiving pictures and posts of what neighbors had collected.
There was a high degree of humor that accompanied the stacks of bottles, cans, mufflers, plastics and even an intact wallet!! We felt closer as a community, the road we drive every day was clean of litter, and we all felt deep satisfaction in caring for our planet. I will leave you with a quote from one of our neighbors who had a heavy haul of beer bottles and cans....
"Must be thrilling to throw your empties over the bank as you near the fork for Gunn Ranch Road"
Bless each of you and please take some time to simply heal the planet today in some small way.
