Today I have the house to myself, as Scott teaches all day. I am alone, but not lonely.
Today the weather has finally cooled. The birds seem a little more active, a little more cheerful. The bees are buzzing around our birdbath, stopping every once in a while to drink deeply.
Today is a day for meditation, for quiet reflection, for me to drink deeply from the pool of silence that surrounds me.
Today is a day for journaling, for for giving silent voice to thoughts buried deep within me.
Today is a day for a stroll around the hill, to observe our deer as they search among the oaks for acorns and the last of the season’s blackberries. The big stags are gone; the does are probably all pregnant.
The road on which I live
Today is a time for remembering what it means to be The Earth Mage, for standing barefoot on the earth and connecting with The Earth Mother, for drumming on my drum until its beat, my heart beat, and the pulse of the Mother are one.
Today is a day for walking in beauty.
What will you do today?
Sun Song’s Prayer (from The Storyteller’s Bracelet)
(From the Navajo)
In beauty I walk.
With beauty before me I walk.
With beauty behind me I walk.
With beauty above me I walk.
With beauty around me I walk.
It has become beauty again.
Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me.
I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.
In beauty all day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With dew about my feet, may I walk.
With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
My words will be beautiful…
beautiful, smoky. i’ve made a vow to get out in nature more. it is one of those things i WANT to do but i never seem to find TIME to do. Also, i too love having the house to myself — it doesn’t happen often. i usually have about 1 1/2 hours a week when mom goes to church, so i make sure i’m home then to breathe. before dad was stroked out, i used to take work vacation when they went away on vacation, i loved having the house relax for once.
I think finding the time to spend in nature is as necessary to healthy living as breathing, eating right, and sleeping. Find the time, Mary, even if it is something as simple as getting up earlier to watch the sun rise, or going somewhere you can watch it set. When I take the time to do this, I find I’m more relaxed, and I can accomplish what I wish to accomplish more easily, and thus faster. It has to do with frame of mind.
it will happen today. and this week i am going to take a few hours to go into our national park. i will be that way. next weekend, a trip to erie, where some parts will be more quiet than at home; in my room, almost like having a house to myself!
Sun Song’s prayer is wonderful for your day…or anyone’s quiet, reflective day. It’s nice being alone in a house. I seldom feel loneliness at such times because the world is so present. I hope you enjoy your connecting moments.
Malcolm
Thank you, my friend.
Today I pray my husband Don’s diagnosis of prostate cancer received yesterday will not be a perilous journey. That we eventually can stop clutching hands at night to comfort after the strain of two and a half years of worry over health issues and now this. I pray for peace of mind and the insanity of a world gone mad should cease. Too much to ask for? Maybe. Start with one and the next might happen.
I pray that for you, Charmaine. (((hug)))
Charlene, i, too, willl send good blessings your way.
So sorry for your news, Charmaine. Bright Blessings to you and your husband.
Beautiful post, Smoky, and sounds like a perfect day. Today, I’m running around shuttling kids to football and soccer practice.
School is out, but sports obviously aren’t!
I loved mothering my children when they were young. I love mothering them from a bit more distance how that they are adults.
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