How could I have known last autumn that today I would find myself cocooned in a sea of green having shed mountains of dusty dross along the journey. We hadn’t planned to move, to buy a little house on a hill in the foothills. To sell the city house that had grown too large. And yet it all happened as if preordained. We were well moved in and sold the old house days before the pandemic shut the world down. The timing of it all, breathtaking in precision, though I was not fully sure any of it would happen at the time.
For months now I have sheltered in place in this healing oasis far from the hustling bustle, visited occasionally by deer and squirrels, and roused each morning by the sun peering through the trees and bird song. Who knew I needed to be here in this place in this time? I was certainly clueless at the onset of this upheaval in my life. We hadn’t planned this; most certainly, we did not, and yet…
I am amazed each day by how right it feels, how perfect, how healing. How I love the silence. How my soul swells with each breath. I am learning to how let go and be. It’s a scary thing to consider at first, but little by little this latest of life’s adventures is teaching me to trust that no amount of planning can prepare me for this. Being is powerful and awesome and dare I say, peaceful, like the calm in the eye of a storm. We speak of the calm before a storm, but I am learning that there is also a deep calm that settles to one’s bones after a storm has passed. The questions that haunt me, why, where, when, or how melt away. That there are new lessons to be learned, my teachers singing from the starry canopy at night, from the shaded hollows amist the trees, from the earth rumbling gently beneath my feet. And I am grateful, oh so grateful be here and now.
Peaceful Sunday to you. Stay safe, be well, and always, all ways be kind not only to others but to yourself!
Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 14 June 2020
I look in the mirror, on the edge
whistling empty in reverence
the breeze…a breath of peace
leaves dance on the breeze
the earth grows wild and free
~kat
A ReVerse poem (a practice I started many years ago) is a summary poem with a single line lifted from each entry of a collection of work over a particular timeframe and re-penned in chronological order as a new poem. Unlike a collaborative poem, the ReVerse features the words of one writer, providing a glimpse into their thoughts over time. I use it as a review of the previous week.
June 14th, 2020 at 11:51 am
I’m so glad for you, my dear
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June 14th, 2020 at 11:52 am
Thank you Ana. It was quite a roller coaster while it was happening! Phew! ❤️
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June 14th, 2020 at 12:21 pm
I love your reconstructed poem and your words. I takes a believing heart to so the random pieces falling exactly in place.
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June 14th, 2020 at 1:21 pm
Thank you Sadje. And being a seeker too. I am always looking for the greater truths of a thing. Have since I was young. The universe, so full of mystery never disappoints! ❤️
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June 14th, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Absolutely right!
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June 14th, 2020 at 2:46 pm
I like this idea of a ReVerse poem, Kat. 🙂
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June 14th, 2020 at 5:54 pm
Thanks Kitty. Been doing it for years.😊
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June 15th, 2020 at 2:32 am
It’s an interesting take, Kat. 🙂
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June 15th, 2020 at 6:44 am
So lovely Kat. It makes me think that everyone should do it, and then I think hell no! That would be terrible, and the peace and joy, and unencumbered living of a pure life, would be in ruins. It’s good to have deer and squirrels as your only neighbours!
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June 15th, 2020 at 7:35 am
It is good Peter. There are a few neighbors around, but at a distance which lends to the quiet. It was a good move for me. 😊
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June 15th, 2020 at 1:13 pm
This is a thought-provoking post, Kat. I’m not pleased about what feels like endless months of forced solitude, yet it has been an opportunity to rethink my values and goals more deeply .
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June 15th, 2020 at 1:24 pm
I agree Robert. Especially working remotely from home has helped me realize how out of balance my work/life balance was. Rethinking boundaries.
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June 15th, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Yes. I think it’s good for people to have a time out to rethink their goals. I’d rather be the one to decide when the time out happens but we can’t have everything.
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June 16th, 2020 at 10:56 am
So true. Take care.
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