 July means summer and holidays to most people ... and in my life it also always brings my birthday. During the last few years, I've not celebrated my birthday in a big way as it just didn't feel like a big deal. I used my birthday instead as a day to be quiet and meditative, to turn in and just BE. Celebrating Life: But this year, somehow, there is an impulse to celebrate. Not so much my birthday itself, as this still seems quite arbitrary, but more Life itself: the mystery and miracle of showing up in this life, living what we're living, and then leaving again. And as our birthday marks our showing up in time and in this life, it can be meaningful to use this day as an opportunity to celebrate Life as it unfolds in this life, our life. And: to celebrate the beauty of Life in this form, our form. So in this spirit, I will be celebrating my birthday this year. |
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I'm so enjoying being back to this beautiful lake close to my home. Plunging into the water and swimming to the other end of the lake and back is one of the most amazing summer joys in my life. Such gratitude for the nature all around me, and for this lake that is such a gift all year round, but so abundantly so in the summer!  As we’re moving into December we’re entering into the darkest part of the year. The winter equinox, which marks the official beginning of winter, is also the longest night of the year and the shortest day. It’s one thing to know this; it’s another to experience it. The mind does not feel: it does not suffer with the cold and the lack of energy that the darkness brings, nor does it delight in the warmth and radiance of the sunlight. It’s our bodies that sense these differences, and our hearts and souls that respond to their deeper meaning.
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