Even though today is supposed to be my day to blog, to take myself out of the daily busyness and be still, hear what my True Self has to say, I did not.
Today, thanks to the Polar Vortex, my children are home from school. It feels hard to pull myself away from them, I want to take advantage of this gift of time together.
So, instead of gazing at the white sky and the branches of the tree outside my window, or visiting those caves in the waters of my imagination, where I feel a Wise Crone lives inside of me, I do this with my daughter:
Photo by Andrea Friedmann
It is a jungle, with a river of water running through it. Chiqui teaches me how to make pompom trees with the glue gun and a pipe cleaner. I make a berry bush of tissue paper and Golondrino contributes a tinfoil canoe. We scrounge up some plastic animals that survived numerous toy purges, and fashion a pipe cleaner snake. We string a vine across it, and hang a monkey from it.
There are a few squabbles as we work: should there or should there not be signs of humans, who tend to destroy nature. Tempers flare, my son stomps off at my daughters’ intransigence. We come back together again, everyone’s heart softens slightly, we all give in a little.
When we are through, we put the box in the sunlight and gaze at our work with pride. We’ve used up a few hours of this long day where outdoor play is not possible.
And I am surprised that I am feeling nourished, my heart is full, running over with love and gratitude, my energy light, warm, joyful.
This? This is better than blogging!
Reflections From My True Self 
February 3, 2014 at 2:29 am
nice 🙂 thks to share!
February 3, 2014 at 10:19 am
Thanks, Greenforus, for stopping by here and commenting. It led me to your blog, and I loved the turmeric face gel recipe you posted there! Wishing you peace and joy.