Belonging

Dear Friends,

I hope you and your family are well, and that you celebrated Mother’s Day in your own beautiful way (you still can!)…keep doing things that make your heart sing and your immunity strong! 

Immunity boosters: Fresh air, happiness, nourishing sleep, releasing emotions, self-massage, meditation, lots of fresh greens (the things that are growing now, in season), body movement, creative pursuits, and belonging, love & safety. Whether this is family, a craft circle, neighbors, a self-care group!, spiritual community, co-workers, school, the place you live….we humans have a need to belong.

However lost you might feel in these tumultuous times of uncertainly and isolation, remember to look around you to Nature and walk outside, feel and breathe the air, let your mind rest on the sky, trees, flowers, birds, breeze…let the wildness, of which you are a part of, soothe your heart.

WILD GEESE, by Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”

In community,

and with love,

Lizabeth