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Frosty
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Winter arrived with some strength…. with temps from 12-30 degrees…. for two weeks here in our southern Oregon valley. Then nearly two weeks of 40-55 degree weather, with a few dandelions to discover in our walks. Tonight is back to freezing for a while. Snow again to just above the valley floor. We’ve still got some amazing broccoli in the garden that I’m nibbling from, and the last dozen of the greenpicked tomatoes are about ripe in the house. The avacodo plant that I “saved” from the compost bin is now here in the shed with me. I’ve no idea if it will survive the winters here, much less ever bear fruit. It is getting special TLC…. several others grew in the garden; they will winter outside. Arrow is 3 today, and much more settled than a year ago. It was ice cream and homemade cookies all around.
Air We Breathe
Posted by: | CommentsOn our walk the other day I was thinking of the marvelous complexity that is the air we breathe; that it is also the breath of Mother Nature, and the breath of every bit of matter on the earth. It is a stupendous complexity of interrelatedness that is ever moving, ever changing, ever life sustaining.
It is common to separate out bits of air and call them temperature, or dew point, or wind…. to spend a lifetime studying those isolated elements. Perhaps a bit like the medical profession… study disease, give drugs. Yet as the health of a being depends on far more than drugs, so is the air far more than the separate elements we classify.
I see the air as an entity in its own right, originating from countless sources, being modified by countless sources; a living being, interacting with all things from the edges of space to the core of the planet. It is an alive and active energy field, this aura of our planet.
When one abandons one’s elements, and ventures to her or his horizons, then will one begin to comprehend the true interactions of those elements.
“All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. “
Tree Energy
Posted by: | CommentsIt seems odd to me that anyone can touch a tree and not feel the energy coursing thru it. To me, it is as simple as turning my attention to it. At this time, I’m not aware of much beyond that, say as for what particular benefits this tree brings to man.
For me, the same is true of running water, the mountains, or weather. It is as if I perceive their energy in a general way, tho each is specific. Each, when my attention is on it, fills me with a sense of awe, love, and a completeness, or connectedness. It feels as tho the connectedness is of multiple eons… a tie more longstanding than human family connections. Yet what I sense, or feel, is but the tiniest bit of this relationship.
Perhaps it is time to shed some more preconceptions of what nature is…. of what I am.
Working with Weather
Posted by: | Comments“At this point Grandfather pulls me back into his realm, where I find myself shape-shifted into the storm itself.
“My intention had been to transfigure into Storm’s divinity-maybe I have and maybe I haven’t-but I can feel Storm Spirit’s energy and personality. Its power is dazzling, and I am moved by the beauty of its lightning and tornadic fingers. As part of the storm, I can feel an intense desire to contact the earth. I feel a sense of searching for where to touch ground, for those places where energy is lacking or where there is too much power locked up. I realize how the intense rains connect the storm to earth. I revel in the storm’s ecstasy of carrying out its purpose for being. At last I fully return to myself, still in Grandfather’s domain. As I thank him, he repeats, “All you can do is to honor…” “
That is a quote from Weather Shamanism, by Nan Moss with David Corbin, subtitled Harmonizing Our Connection With the Elements. It can be very informative to one who is new to this subject. However, for actually working with weather, Peter Calhoun’s Soul on Fire was one of those books that jumped off the shelf at me, knocked my socks off, and left me in awe.