Refuse to look lightly upon the world. Bear the weight of each day, every moment, every word and every action, like it is your last and final undoing. Let this burden weigh you down, push you under, slow your feet to a crawl. Some days you will feel as though you are sinking in quicksand slowly creeping its way up to your chin, heavy on the chest, only a matter of time when breath escapes you. Other days, running in water or wading through snow will feel only slightly more difficult. And some some days, you’ll crawl, climb, maybe even dance with a burden light and malleable. Bear it, none the less, and do not forget that you are not alone.
Category: nature
Panentheism: Filling gaps of ancestral homelessness
A wise teacher said recently, with acute and accurate observation, “Most multi-god religions never really had an issue with the one-god religions. It’s the Monotheistic religions that…… Read more “Panentheism: Filling gaps of ancestral homelessness”
The arrival of fox and other animal teachers
I have only seen foxes a few times in my life, but most of those times in a rather liminal space where their arrivals made me stop…… Read more “The arrival of fox and other animal teachers”
Emotional burden not burnout
Down time, some quiet, a couple moments of peace between one emotional, heavy day in patient rooms and family waiting rooms and another heavy, emotional grief group…… Read more “Emotional burden not burnout”
How we are meant to see
My eyes need softening, my gaze the balm of what they were made to behold. We were not made to stare into that blue light of our…… Read more “How we are meant to see”