Cariño,
How are you today? This might be the last time I call you that, now that it’s been almost a month since returning from Colombia.
It’s all fading. My tan. My muscle tone. The new arm-styling moves I learned from my salsa teacher, Ronny. He would not be pleased.
I know that this fading gives way to something else wonderful, as my full attention returns home to the Olympic Peninsula. Everything is waking up, and I’m finding that there’s some inevitable turbulence in this re-emergence. I’m reminded that nothing wakes up in full force. A seedling sprouts and a pair of baby leaves form long before its true leaves ever show. Germination times vary.
Some days I feel like the salmonberry or the Indian plum—blossoming right on time. Other days I’m still fast asleep, curled up in the bud of my own becoming.
I breathe into every part of myself and its various state of readiness.
As if my own breath could give it exactly what it needs.
Turns out, flowers love carbon dioxide.
In March, I wrote about coming into balance in The poetics of place. It touched on the energy of Early Spring, re-integrating back into the Olympic Peninsula, reframing the concepts of “nothing” and “silence” as presence, interdependency and intimacy with place, birds (yes, again), and more.
I absolutely love weaving my world and sharing it with you.
The rest of this newsletter offers curated resources related to these themes and more. (Spoiler alert: There’s a ritual involving Fantasia 2000, plus the sacred meaning of the plants of Hawaiian hula!). I hope these resources tend to a part of you that’s ready to emerge. I hope at least one brings a smile to your face. I hope you got to stare at last week’s full moon, or can greet her in her waning tonight.
I hope you consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a one-off token of appreciation to help expand this work. I hope you know how grateful I am to be among the recipients of your attention—the most valuable form of currency. I’ll never stop being honored that you’re here.
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