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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, January 9, 2015

Sliver of the Moment



There is an opening, an opportunity, in the fabric of right now. A small crack emerges with a glinting sliver of light emanating from deep within.

Gently peeling back the edges, we can easily slip into the space. Allowing for the wide expanse between despair and hope, or incarceration and freedom, or any other seemingly-opposed positions, we can learn to abide in the offering at the center of this moment. We can explore all that arises, instant by instant, because we know that pretty soon we will find the place of moderate abidance, that peaceful place in which we can learn to reside with any truth, or event, or consequence, with all its messiness of borderlessness.

And as we do so, we can feel how broad and spacious and luxurious this soft-edges place is; we can feel how this is just “meant to be.” We can blame or attribute. We can fret or we can move forward. But this is no small confinement. It is a vast broad valley of green and growing things.

This just might be the geography of acceptance and faith.
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