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Just Around the Riverbend
Dear friend, As you know, I've been feeling a little stuck and frustrated recently. I never do it enough, but walking or resting outside ALWAYS helps me; Mama Nature never fails to whack me over the head like Rafiki and knock some clarity into the lost, tangled, churning of my mind. Like when your harddrive begins to grind and you give it a good slap to right it again. Kind of. On this particular hike, clarity came down this waterfall on the trail up Slieve Donard - part of the beautiful Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland. When we reached it, I sat down on the rocks to catch my breath and to enjoy the sound of the rushing water washing over me. Balm to my soul. Something struck me - as so often happens when I am forest bathing or held in mother nature's hands. I felt a silly grin of wonder spread over my face as it clicked in, something clearcut but still so intangible as to make it difficult to articulate. Trying to was a bit like turning a crystal over in your hand to catch the facets of light and colour. I turned to the love of my life, and announced, "babe, life is like that water!" I got that look from him - the invitation to elaborate on my outburst. "Sometimes you feel carried in the flow, rushing forward so FAST, and other times you are held within a pool and you feel stuck - in a rut. Going nowhere. Dammed up! Right?" I had felt a bit like that recently. I know he had too. "But look", I said. "That stalled water there in that wee pool is still moving. It's still trickling slowly and when it spills over the edge of the rocks there and rejoins the flow, it's rushing forward so fast again." And to where? It doesn't know. It doesn't know where it's headed or what lies around the riverbend. What path it will carve out. And then something else occurred to me: no molecules of water are the same; they all form part of the same river, but no two share the same path. No two go at the same pace for any length of time. We cannot compare our life's journey to another's. We all start and end and ultimately are in the same cycle, but we each have various stops to make along the way. We carry different things down the river. We freeze and thaw in our own time. We catch the sunlight and reflect different frames of life. That's the beauty of it. So, my friend, enjoy the flow. Embrace the company and the burdens. Enjoy the frenetic pace. The stagnation. It won't last - not any of it. And then it will be over. We all get more of a sense of this at this time of year, don't we? As we look at the date with a familiar bafflement and begin to talk of the year ahead? As to 2019? "Why do all my dreams extend, just around the river bend?" (Pocohontas) Well, whether we're rushing or meandering, my love, we are definitely on our way to meet them. All my love, Luna x
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