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Juliet Fay's avatar

I like your exploration, Sally. The idea of fostering connection as the most important thing is changing my daily life. Instead of going to the store to buy food. Buying food at the store becomes an opportunity to connect: with people, with food, with stories (of the food), with myself.

Also I’m very curious about where I can see beauty energy and nourishment in decay and death of … landscapes, ideas, identities, hopes and dreams. Feels as if we’re unbalanced. Only valuing creation and growth. Not wanting to acquiesce to the full cycle.

Unchecked growth - that’s how cancer operates.

Are we overlooking the sacred nature of dissolution? Honouring endings allows new beginnings. Resisting them creates suffering.

I saw some diseased leaves on a tree yesterday and noticed my immediate reaction of concern. The assumption that this is wrong. I paused and looked and looked until I began to see beauty in the pattern of the disease on the leaf.

I wonder if we aren’t being invited to go beyond the mind’s insistent opinions of right and wrong, good and bad, into a more direct communion with the ebb and flow of life. The unchecked activity of the mind drives separation.

I like your idea to find humility and small stories. Being with decay and dying in loving presence, what might we come to understand, to see?

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Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne's avatar

In emergency,

loss, learn enoughness, emerge.

Earth-centric counsel.

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