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Welcome! This is a place to share how we celebrate & deepen our relationship to Nature. Here you will find stories, images, & ideas about wilderness, human nature, & soulfulness. Drawing from the experiences of everyday living, the topics on this blog include: forays into the natural world, the writing life, community service, meditation, creativity, grief & loss, inspiration, & whatever else emerges from these. I invite you on this exploration of the wild within & outside of us: the inner/outer landscape.



Friday, March 22, 2019

Grief is a Slippery Thing

A trip to the empty mailbox
The half-pink cherry blossom 
High tide spirals around fallen limbs
Yellow-gray supermoon on an equinox morning 
Catch me by surprise

A birthday, and then another
The one-year-ago condolence card from the sender who has now also passed
The March of memories

One grief is plenty
Two are too much
And those lavender flowers that just bloomed in the garden begged for a salty tear

Now I know what a moon shadow is –
Direct experience of human, tree, cat stretching into the moon’s full beam: 
And it is exquisitely beautiful, exquisitely heart-wrenching

Reach for the intoxicating scent of GrassFlowerRainSoil caught on a spiral of air
And inhale deeply
Billowing the fragrance downward to the thick heartache 
Feeling illumination 
Opening
Relieving
Refreshing




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