I am ever so thankful for:
The darkness that I see when I go down into a cave underground and the lights are turned out and we all experience total darkness, not even a hint of light anywhere, nothing but black all around you. I am grateful for the opportunity to know that darkness and stillness and lack of everything that we take for granted.
And then, I am grateful for the soft stone steps that take me out of that cave. For the gradual natural slow transport from darkness to light. I am thankful for the passage between the two places. I am thankful for the time between the two worlds that allows me to adapt from the darkness and the stillness. I am grateful for the time between that allows my mind to begin to see light, that allows my heart to begin to beat a little faster and come from a place of slowed pulse and nonexistence.
I am then grateful for the green plants that line the cave mouth and introduce me to life. I am grateful for the dark thick moss that feels like velvet when my hand reaches out and explores a world that is beyond beautiful. I am grateful to see such tremendous variety in the plants, the whispy asparagus ferns, the huge elephant ear leaves that hold water, and the incredibly tall trees with umbrellas overhead.
I am almost shocked at the vibrant colors that are so alive in the sunshine, the parrots that fly overhead, the flowers that brush my face as I walk past them and the wonderful scent that is so far removed from dense clay and wet rock that lies deep under the earth in tunnels. The colors are yellow and orange and red and iridescent blue and purple. I am practically assaulted by aroma and wind and color and light. Everything together is so perfect, the blend of light and color and scented flowers and breezes that caress your face and hair, even the cleansing rain that washes away all of the dust from your past is an amazing experience.
I am incredibly grateful for nature and the beauty of this earth!!!
Last night I went rollerblading and the spring flowering bushes create the most intoxicating scent. I can’t breath it deeply enough. I can’t heal enough out there. I can’t get enough of it. I simply can not. It is a blessing beyond what I can describe.
I saw 4 deer last night on the trail. They froze when they sensed me coming. And for a long time we watched each other as I approached them like some creature from the forest that they weren’t sure of. I was so tired because I had gone 10 miles in the forest last night. And I almost floated to them, because at the end of the evening’s work out, I barely move anything except my legs in a slow rhythm that is very relaxing.
It was beyond wonderful for me to be in that place. I heal in the forest. And that is real. That is very real to me. And … I am honored to be able to know the darkness so that I can appreciate the light. It’s all worthwhile, all of it. Nothing goes to waste if you just open your eyes and look at it. Nothing is without value. Nothing is without some sort of meaning. And there is so much out there to discover just waiting for us to reach out and touch.
Sometimes I think I was dead before. I think maybe I was dead. It’s good to be alive!!!
These I have seen with my own eyes
And these also
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