'Seeing Soil'
Here is a piece for you, to connect with the forest – notice what happens throughout and the experience you may have when connecting to the earth. If you can be in a forest while reading this – even better, if not… just imagine you are there instead.
The feeling of being home
You know that one?
Peace at last,
I remember this.
Held
Understood
Mmmm
Sometimes it’s hard to put into words
The essence not felt in a verse
I’ll try.
Gently, take a look at the ground
What have you found?
A whole world
Worlds in fact.
Teeny tiny, meeny miny… friends
Working together
Alive
Experiencing cycles
A life.
Life under our feet
What goes on down there, underneath?
How far does it go?
How much do we not know?
What’s beneath?
What can’t we see?
Such mystery, nourishment
In all ways of the word
Nourish
No rush
Nature doesn’t do that.
It rebuilds, gently
With much diversity
Wow
Can you imagine living in tune,
Natural flow
Notice in May, everything is slow.
Foundations are set
Not much has grown yet
It’s being repaired
Prepared
Regenerating
And, we’re patiently waiting
While – everything looks like a painting
So perfectly organised
Nothing out of place
Exactly where it’s meant to be
Ready to face, summer.
The end of a chapter, into the new.
Constantly, smoothly, changing, with grace.
I invite you to let these words sink in.
Let them sink.
Feel them rooting, within.
Now, know that everything you’ve just read
Is about you, too
As you too, are nature
We are.
I’d like you to close your eyes and breathe deeply for 3 breaths.
.
.
.
Remember who you are.
Connect back to origin.
