Your writing has a beautiful flow, painting thoughtful images with just a few strokes. A gift I'm jealous of. And we do share a language: old memories that resurface in the present, the liminal, the ecotone. However the area where I live is more of a bocage of fields and forests and hedges. All little patches. But I do feel truly at home here, too.
Love, love, love this. The in between...the both/and. Its been a theme in my practice with others and a constant reminder with myself over the last few years. Your story is such a beautiful example and reminder to me of liminal spaces, like our space in the KC area of woodlands to grasslands. It is a definite ah-ha for me. I am a leaner toward the woodlands of Missouri more than the grasslands of Kansas and I enjoy both. However its been my longtime passion to live in the treetops. One of my sons contends he will build that for me one day. :) I think most of us in this time period are living in between...and its hard and challenging, especially on our nervous systems and sometimes then on our bodies. And its exciting. Who says getting older at this time is boring. Not my experience at all. Thank you for these inspirations on this fine very, very hot Sunday morning. Another in between space, the coolness of last week and now the scorching heat. And the reminder of being Still....yes, being still. Big sigh.
Bobbie, thank you...for reading, for responding, for sharing your journey here. Have you read or listened to Francis Weller? In his newest book, In the Absence of the Ordinary he writes of this time we are in as The Long Dark. It was such an affirmation of what I feel in every ounce of me to be true. Grateful our paths have crossed. So grateful.
I love that our callings don't require more of us, they require us to strip away everything that doesn't belong. So we can show up our most authentic, loving selves. Such a great reflection and article Thank you!
Thank you. I love that this has been your experience too. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and letting me know what spoke to you. Truly, thank you.
Your writing has a beautiful flow, painting thoughtful images with just a few strokes. A gift I'm jealous of. And we do share a language: old memories that resurface in the present, the liminal, the ecotone. However the area where I live is more of a bocage of fields and forests and hedges. All little patches. But I do feel truly at home here, too.
Thank you for this.
Thank you for the compliment and introducing me to a new word...bocage...an earthly patchwork quilt. Grateful.
Love, love, love this. The in between...the both/and. Its been a theme in my practice with others and a constant reminder with myself over the last few years. Your story is such a beautiful example and reminder to me of liminal spaces, like our space in the KC area of woodlands to grasslands. It is a definite ah-ha for me. I am a leaner toward the woodlands of Missouri more than the grasslands of Kansas and I enjoy both. However its been my longtime passion to live in the treetops. One of my sons contends he will build that for me one day. :) I think most of us in this time period are living in between...and its hard and challenging, especially on our nervous systems and sometimes then on our bodies. And its exciting. Who says getting older at this time is boring. Not my experience at all. Thank you for these inspirations on this fine very, very hot Sunday morning. Another in between space, the coolness of last week and now the scorching heat. And the reminder of being Still....yes, being still. Big sigh.
Bobbie, thank you...for reading, for responding, for sharing your journey here. Have you read or listened to Francis Weller? In his newest book, In the Absence of the Ordinary he writes of this time we are in as The Long Dark. It was such an affirmation of what I feel in every ounce of me to be true. Grateful our paths have crossed. So grateful.
I love that our callings don't require more of us, they require us to strip away everything that doesn't belong. So we can show up our most authentic, loving selves. Such a great reflection and article Thank you!
Thank you. I love that this has been your experience too. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and letting me know what spoke to you. Truly, thank you.
I love this observation!