It’s a day to pause as the light begins to shift and we prepare to enter a new year.

May this be the year we move into the heart of longing for peace and release the tools and words of war.

I watched a video of the poet Jane Hirshfield last night. She spoke of how Kinship will save us, the acknowledgment of our interconnection.  Perhaps we could say to every tree we pass: sister, sister, sister.  We can ask our natural friends, our relatives, the mountains and plants, what they can teach us.  This is a time to listen. 

I’ve always loved the work of Alexander Calder, his mobiles and circuses.  Jane was asked if darkness is required in great art.  She used his work as an example of such lightness, beauty, and happiness that reflection is required to find the mortality.  It’s in the delicacy of his creations.  They move and sway, fragile in their time here, as are we.  

The psychologist Carl Jung wrote: The whole world wants peace and the whole world prepares for war.

May this be the year we acknowledge our kinship and grow the heart of our desire for peace and the wind and breath chimed grace of love.

Here is the link to the talk if you’re interested: